The 15 patients investigated were all Africans attending the Jane Furse Memorial Hospital in Transvaal. The diagnosis of Vincent's stomatitis was made initially on clinical evidence and on the typical bacteriological findings on examination of smears from the lesions-namely, the presence of large numbers of spirochaetes with the morphology of Borrelia vincentii and fusiform organisms. Of the 15...

BACKGROUND Denture stomatitis is a common fungal oral infection of multifactorial etiology. Denture-related factors such as denture's age, hygiene, night wearing and colonization by Candida albicans are known to predispose to denture stomatitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate these factors and their relationship with the occurrence of denture stomatitis in a Lebanese population. MATERI...

Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is an inflammatory condition leading to ocular morbidity. It can be associated with underlying autoimmune diseases which often goes undetected if the manifestation precedes systemic manifestation. The objective of this case report highlight that, management such entity challenging. We present a 36-year- old female diminution vision, PUK necrotizing scleriti...

We herein report the case of a 41-year-old Japanese man with well-controlled HIV who presented with diagnostically difficult acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG). After diet-induced weight loss, he developed oral pain and disturbance of mouth opening, and was admitted to our hospital. Based on preconceptions of HIV-associated diseases, fluconazole was initiated for candidiasis. Howeve...

Necrotizing sialometaplasia is an uncommon inflammatory condition that affects salivary glands. A 38-year-old man with bilateral ulcerative painful lesions at the junction of the hard and soft palate was presented. An incisional biopsy was performed. Histopathologically, pseudoepithelomatous hyperplasia, lobular necrosis with through the maintenance of the architecture of salivary glands and sq...

OBJECTIVE To highlight the key differences in history, examination, and management of pyoderma gangrenosum and necrotizing fasciitis and to outline the importance of distinguishing these 2 conditions. METHOD We present a case report of a gentleman with a background of ulcerative colitis having a 1-week history of an erythematous wound and localized abscess to the right leg that failed to resp...

INTRODUCTION Gingival margin position in relation to synthetic crowns and crown length could be etiological factors in gingival health. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-year-old male presented with necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis with short clinical crowns suggestive of altered passive eruption. Three years after the initial diagnosis, he presented with crowns on the maxillary incisors. There were sh...