The aim of this work is to demonstrate how current molecular techniques should be integrated in the diagnostic process and can have a crucial role in the management of oral fungal infections. A case of median rhomboid glossitis Candida-associated and its resolution will be described step by step. At the time of the first observation, the lesion on the surface of the tongue did not respond to th...

In the late autumn of 1931 a steadily increasing number of prisoners in the Gauhati Jail began to complain of pain in the tongue, mouth and gullet. The jail is one occupied in the main by men serving long sentences and has accommodation for 400 prisoners. Owing, however, to the present economic distress, there has been considerable overcrowding, amounting throughout the last year to a hundred o...

Benign Migratory Glossitis (BMG) has been known by a variety of names including geographic tongue, erythema migrans and wandering rash of the tongue. It is not an uncommon condition and surveys showed a prevalence of below three percent in the North Americans (McCarthy 1941, Halperin 1953, and Redman 1970), and the condition may be found at any age. The male to female ratio being 1:2 (Halperin ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between median rhomboid glossitis (MRG) and Candida and bacteria species, prevalence and possible association with age, gender, smoking, denture wearing, and diabetes mellitus. METHODS Tongue examinations were performed on 4244 consecutive patients. Of all the examined patients, 30 diagnosed with MRG were selected as the...

Vitamin B12 deficiency in children often under reported and usually presents with nonspecific manifestations like neuropsychiatric symptoms, anaemia, glossitis chronic diarrhoea. Vegetarianism, minimal intake of animal products, poverty malnutrition may lead to vitamin deficiency. Laboratory reports show pancytopenia, megaloblasts bone marrow low serum cynocobalamine. Injectable is the treatmen...

Chronic hyperplastic candidosis (CHC) affects predominantly adult males in the jugal mucosa commissure, and less frequently on the lateral tongue and palate. Smoking and occlusal friction are the most common local factors associated with CHC. This article reports a case of CHC on the palate resulting from candidosis associated with median rhomboid glossitis, characterizing an uncommon event kno...