Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population.

Background: Oral mucosa is encountered by various lesions and normal variants. Some are not to be worried about, whereas others may be of significance. Knowing the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in a particular region helps better evaluate, diagnose, and, thus, manage these lesions.

Steroid-induced inflammatory papillary hyperplasia?-A new entity in a non-denture wearing patient.

Key Clinical Message: Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia can be seen in a non-denture-wearing patient also therfore other etiologies need to be explored as well.

Abstract: Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia (IPH) is a benign lesion of the palatal mucosa, usually found in denture wearers. This case history report describes an example of the dentate patients with no history of wearing maxillary prostheses and highlights the importance of professional awareness to diagnose IPH among non-denture-wearing patients.

White sponge nevus of the oral cavity: Affecting members of two generations in a family.

The typical feature is the autosomal dominant heritance and clinically dormant, non-scarpalble, white diffuse, soft, thickened white plaques with a corrugated surface affecting mostly the buccal mucosa bilaterally which can substantially lead to the diagnosis of white sponge nevus.