Poorly Differentiated Gingival Carcinoma, Mimicking Pyogenic, Granuloma -A Diagnostic Dilemma,

Increase in size of the gingiva is probably the most striking and common feature of the gingival disease.Even though neoplasms constitute a small proportion of gingival enlargements, most of the times the early cancerous lesions of the gingiva are often misdiagnosed by the dentists as they initially resemblethe common dental infections. The case report presents a case of poorly differentiated carcinoma of thegingiva which was misdiagnosed clinically and microscopically as an inflammatorylesion in the initial stages. The case report stresses upon the need for repeat biopsies of the lesions if the initial biopsy report does not correspond to the biologic behaviour of the lesion.