Oral Disease Flashcards
what can cause solitary ulcers?
- not trauma
- oral squamous cell carcinoma
- infective (TB)
what is another name for multiple ulcers?
recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU)
what are the 3 major types of RAU?
major, minor and herpetiform
what are Bechets ulcers?
hereditary systemic vasculitis, can also present with genital ulceration, uveitis, erythema nodosum
signs of anaemic ulcers?
- mucosal pallor
- oral ulceration
- glossitis
- angular chelitis
- predisposition to candida
- disturbed taste
what mucocutaneous disorders cause multiple ulcers?
- lichen planus
- vesiculobullous (Pemphigus and Pemphigoid)
lupus erythematousus
characteristics of Lichen Planus?
- bilateral
- asymptomatic
- can affect skin
- potentially malignant
characteristics of Lupus Erythematosus?
- discoid or systemic
- oral manifestations
- red and white patches
characteristics of VB disease? (Pemphigus Vulgaris)
- oral lesions preceding skin
- pain
- preceded by blisters
- Nikolsky sign
characteristics of VB disease? (Pemphigoid)
- benign mucous membrane pemphigoid
- blisters
- affects mucous of other organs
histological signs of pemphigoid?
sub epithelial bullae
histological signs of pemphigus?
intraepithelial bullae
features of crohn’s disease?
- cobble-stoning of mucosa
- loaclised mucogingivitis
- linear ulceration
- tissue tags/polyps
- diffuse swelling
- pyostomatitis vegetans
features of ulcerative colitis?
- oral ulceration
- pyostomatitis vegetans
- angular stomatitis
if a white patch wipes off what does that mean?
usually pseudomembranous candidiasis
