title: Oral herpetic lesions in an edentulous patient.
abstract: This article reports a case of oral herpetic lesions that recurred several times over 1 1/2 years in an edentulous 65-year-old woman. The patient was under treatment for complete dentures at the New Jersey Dental School. A differential diagnosis of mucosal ulcerative lesions is described, along with the laboratory methodology for confirmation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection.
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samant
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Warman
authors.forename: T E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Bolden
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000150:complications; D013283:Stomatitis, Herpetic / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*