title: Geographic tongue in monozygotic twins.
abstract: This article discusses a case of 5-year-old girl monozygotic twins who were suffering from geographic tongue (GT), a benign inflammatory disorder of the tongue which is characterized by circinate, irregular erythematous lesions on the dorsum and lateral borders of the tongue caused by loss of filiform papillae of the tongue epithelium. Whilst geographic tongue is a common entity, reports on this condition are uncommon in the literature. To best of our knowledge, this is the first report which has described monozygotic twins with geographic tongue in the literature.
authors: Professor and Consultant Paediatric Dentist, Department of Paediatric Dentistry , Bangalore, India .
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authors: Shekhar M
keywords: Benign migratory glossitis; Emotional stress; Geographic tongue; Monozygotic twins