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Year : 2011 | Volume
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Oral tuberculosis involving maxillary gingiva
Rohit Jaiswal, Anil Singh, Manjunath Badni, Priyanka Singh
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Rohit Jaiswal F1\B1 River Bank Colony, Lucknow-226018, Uttar Pradesh India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-5950.94476
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is transmitted by aerosolized saliva droplets among individuals in close contact with expelled sputum of a diseased patient. However, TB lesions of the oral cavity are often overlooked in the differential diagnosis. We report here a case of tuberculosis of oral cavity affecting the gingiva of a 24-year-old male. |
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