Fungal Infections

Question 1

Most common oral fungal infection?

Answer 1

Candidosis

Question 2

Some predisposing factors for Candidiasis?

Answer 2

Antibiotic therapy
Chemotherapy
Corticosteroid therapy
Dentures
Diabetes mellitus

Question 3

White material that can be wiped off with normal or erythematous mucosa underneath. May be symptomatic with burning sensation and metallic taste

Answer 3

Pseudomembranous candidosis

Question 4

Antiobiotic sore mouth with erythematous, painful burning sensation affecting gingiva and loss of filiform papillae

Answer 4

Erythematous “acute atrophic” candidosis

Question 5

Denture stomatitis causing denture sore mouth?

Answer 5

Chronic atrophic candidosis

Question 6

White lesion that does not wipe off?

Answer 6

chronic hyperplastic candidosis (could also be leukoplakia)

Question 7

Sores at the corner of the mouth caused mostly by Candida (90%)?

Answer 7

Angular cheilitis

Question 8

Well-defined, erythematous, rhomboid (diamond-shaped) area at midline of posterior dorsal tongue that is often asymptomatic

Answer 8

Median rhomboid glossitis “chronic atrophic candidosis”

Question 9

Deep fungal infections mostly cause what?

Answer 9

primary lung involvement

Question 10

Some deep fungal infections can mimic what?

Answer 10

squamous cell carcinoma

Question 11

Name some opportunistic fungal infections often seen in immunosuppressed/diabetics?

Answer 11

Zygomycosis