Oral mucosa: variations from normalcy, part II

J M Seoane Leston; A Aguado Santos; P I Varela-Centelles; Juan Vazquez Garcia; M A Romero; L Pias Villamor

Oral mucosa: variations from normalcy, part II

Cutis. 2002 Mar;69(3):215-7.

Authors

J M Seoane Leston¹, A Aguado Santos, P I Varela-Centelles, Juan Vazquez Garcia, M A Romero, L Pias Villamor

Affiliation

¹ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

PMID: 11930907

Abstract

This is the second article in a 2-part series on the variations of oral mucosa. We describe the following 5 conditions that deviate from normalcy: lateral soft palate fistulas, double lip, fissured tongue, racial gingival pigmentation, and geographic tongue.

MeSH terms

Gingiva / abnormalities
Glossitis, Benign Migratory / pathology
Humans
Lip / abnormalities
Lip / pathology
Lip / surgery
Mouth Diseases / pathology*
Mouth Mucosa / anatomy & histology
Mouth Mucosa / pathology*
Palate, Soft / pathology
Pigmentation Disorders / pathology
Risk Assessment
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tongue, Fissured / pathology