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Mouth problems

Links to DermNet's pages about skin conditions that favour the mouth (the oral mucosa, including lips, gums and tongue).

Infections

• Angular cheilitis
• Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis
• Enterovirus infections
• Gingivitis and periodontitis
• Hairy leukoplakia
• Hand foot and mouth disease
• Herpangina
• Herpes simplex (cold sores)
• Herpes zoster (shingles)
• Kawasaki disease
• Measles
• Necrotising periodontal disease
• Oral candidiasis (thrush)
• Scarlet fever (scarlatina)

Non-infectious conditions

• Actinic cheilitis
• Allergic contact cheilitis
• Amalgam tattoo
• Angina bullosa haemorrhagica
• Angioedema
• Aphthous ulcers
• Ascher syndrome
• Behcet disease
• Burning mouth
• Fissured tongue
• Cheilitis
• Chronic ulcerative stomatitis
• Cicatricial pemphigoid
• Contact cheilitis in musicians
• Contact stomatitis
• Cutaneous lupus erythematosus
• Dental sinus
• Denture stomatitis
• Eczematous cheilitis
• Epulis
• Eosinophilic ulcer of the oral mucosa
• Erosive lichen planus
• Erythema multiforme
• Exfoliative cheilitis
• Fissured tongue
• Fistulas and sinuses of the neck and face
• Geographic tongue (benign migratory glossitis)
• Giant cell fibroma
• Gingival enlargement
• Granulomatous cheilitis
• Hereditary gingival fibromatosis
• Lichen planus
• Linear IgA bullous dermatosis
• Malakoplakia
• Mucocoele of the lip
• Natal and neonatal teeth
• Nicotine stomatitis
• Oral cancer
• Oral dysaesthesia
• Oral irritated fibroma
• Oral leukoplakia
• Oral lichenoid drug eruption
• Oral lichen planus
• Oral submucous fibrosis
• Orofacial Crohn disease
• Orofacial manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease
• Orofacial granulomatosis
• Paraneoplastic pemphigus
• Pemphigus vulgaris
• Peripheral odontogenic fibroma
• Peripheral ossifying fibroma
• Pigmented contact cheilitis
• Pollen-food allergy syndrome
• Pyodermatitis-pyostomatitis vegetans
• Retrocuspid papilla
• Riga-Fede disease
• Scurvy
• Solar cheilitis
• Stevens Johnson syndrome / Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)
• Stomatitis
• Teeth
• Tongue conditions
• Torus
• Transient lingual papillitis
• White sponge naevus

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