Oral Manifestations Of Tuberculosis Dr. Shrinivas Basa*†, Professor &HOD, Dr. Reddy N. Srinivas**, Professor & HOD, Dr. Vinod K.***, Professor & HOD, Dr. manohar James**, Professor * Dept. of Oral Pathology, MPCD&RC, Gwalior (M.P.) ** Dept. of Periodontology, MIDS, Nizamabad (A.P) *** Dept. of Orthodontics, MPCD &RC, Gwalior. (M.P) †Corresponding Address: Dr. Basa Shrinivas, Dept. of Oral Pathology, MPCD&RC Gwalior (M.P)
Online published on 8 December, 2011. Abstract Tuberculosis still remains a disease of major public health concern in majority of developing countries. We are seeing an increasing association of tuberculosis & HIV in recent years. Although there have been numerous reports on the presentation of oral tuberculous lesions, either primary/secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis,to our knowledge there has been not much study or report on the other accompanying manifestations of tuberculosis in the oral cavity. Top Keywords Primary tuberculous lesions, oral manifestations, immunodeficiency, hypertrophic circumvallate papillae. Top |