Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology (Jan 2003)

Oral Tuberculous Ulcer - A Report of Two Cases

  • Renuka J Bathi,
  • Sameena Parveen,
  • Neeraj Taneja

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
pp. 62 – 65

Abstract

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Tuberculous lesions of oral cavity had become so infrequent that it was virtually a forgotten disease entity but now due to increased prevalence of immunodefiency, incidence of tuberculous lesion has also increased. We report two cases, primary and secondary tuberculosis of oral mucosa presenting with history and clinical findings. We emphasize on early detection of and treatment of the same.