1Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow
2Professor, Professor & Head, Department of Periodontics & Implantology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow
3Reader, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow
4Professor, Department of Pedodontics, MAHE Institute of Dental Sciences, Mahe, Puducherry
5PG Student, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow
*Corresponding author: Dr Jagriti Gupta, 3A, Vijay Nagar, Kanpur Road, Lucknow. 226023. Uttar Pradesh, India. Mobile number - 09451975234, E-mail: jagritig26@gmail.com
Online published on 21 March, 2015.
Oral granulomatous lesion includes those which are characterised by the presence of granulomas like in tuberculosis, leprosy etc. and also those without the formation of granulomas but with a prominent proliferation of granulation tissue. Orofacial granulomatosis (OFG) comprises a group of diseases characterized by noncaseating granulomatous inflammation affecting the soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region. This term, introduced by Wiesenfeld in 1985, encompasses Melkersson- Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) and cheilitis granulomatosa (CG) of Miescher. Herein we present a review of granulomatous inflammation of the oral cavity.
Granuloma, epitheloid cells, Sarcoidosis, inflammation
