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Review
. 2015 Aug;7(Suppl 2):S403-8.
doi: 10.4103/0975-7406.163471.

Oral pigmentation: A review

C Sreeja  1 , K Ramakrishnan  1 , D Vijayalakshmi  1 , M Devi  1 , I Aesha  2 , B Vijayabanu  3
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Review

Oral pigmentation: A review

C Sreeja et al. J Pharm Bioallied Sci. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

Pigmentations are commonly found in the mouth. They represent in various clinical patterns that can range from just physiologic changes to oral manifestations of systemic diseases and malignancies. Color changes in the oral mucosa can be attributed to the deposition of either endogenous or exogenous pigments as a result of various mucosal diseases. The various pigmentations can be in the form of blue/purple vascular lesions, brown melanotic lesions, brown heme-associated lesions, gray/black pigmentations.

Keywords: Endogenous; exogenous; oral mucosa; pigmentation.

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