OBJECTIVE To document the prevalence, age and gender distribution of oral lesions in HIV infected adults and the influence of highly active antiretroviral therapy and correlate them to the immune status of the patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Oral lesions were diagnosed by a detailed physical examination by trained and calibrated examiners according to the case definitions established by the O...

Background. Oral mucocele is a common lesion resulting from an alteration of minor salivary glands due to mucus accumulation. Rapid appearance, specific location, history of trauma, bluish colour, and consistency help in the diagnosis. Conventional surgical removal is the treatment of choice but has several disadvantages like damage to adjacent ducts with further development of satellite lesion...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the definition of oral leukoplakia, proposed by the WHO in 2005 and taking into account a previously reported classification and staging system, including the use of a Certainty factor of four levels with which the diagnosis of leukoplakia can be established. In the period 1997-2012 a hospital-based population of 275 consecutive patients with a provi...

Introduction Arriving at the final diagnosis requires histopathological examination of biopsied lesion. Many a times, lesion may be hindered due to presence artifacts in slide. Having thorough knowledge these help take precautionary measures avoid their occurrence. This study is an attempt analyze slides from Department Oral Pathology identify seen oral biopsy specimens. Methods cross sectional...

BACKGROUND It is known that abnormal changes may occur in any part of the oral mucous membrane exposed to a carcinogen. Therefore patients with oral potentially malignant disorders (PMDs) are at risk of developing similar lesions at multiple sites. OBJECTIVES To determine the risk of the contralateral mucosa in patients presenting with oral PMDs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty individuals with...

Pyogenic granuloma is one of the inflammatory hyperplasias seen in the oral cavity. This term is a misnomer because the lesion is unrelated to infection and in reality arises in response to various stimuli such as low-grade local irritation, traumatic injury or hormonal factors. It predominantly occurs in the second decade of life in young females, possibly because of the vascular effects of fe...

Primary malignant melanoma of oral cavity is very rare. A case of oral melanoma who died due to metastasis a year after the excision of the primary lesion is reported along with a brief review of the literature.