Week 01.Mouth

Question 1

define: ERYTHROPLAKIA

Answer 1

abnormal red lesions in oral mucous membranes, generally a solid red patch; sometimes used interchangeably with erythroplasia; others associate erythroplakia with premalignancy

Question 2

define: ERYTHROPLASIA

Answer 2

nonspecific red patch

Question 3

which is more ominous: leukoplakia or erythroplakia?

Answer 3

erythroplakia

Question 4

geographic tongue is seen primarily in which patients?

Answer 4

young adults, especially women; higher incidence in patients with psoriasis or type 1 diabetes

Question 5

common term for benign migratory glossitis

Answer 5

geographic tongue

Question 6

Kaposi’s sarcoma in the mouth is most commonly associated with ____

Answer 6

AIDS patients, especially homosexual men