Oral Submucous Fibrosis In A Young Boy

Abstract

Shushrutha in ancient medicine described a condition, “Vidari” under mouth and throat diseases. He noticed a progressive narrowing of mouth, depigmentation of oral mucosa & pain on taking food. Schwart in 1952, described five Indian women from East Africa with “Atrophia idiopathica (tropica) mucosae oris”. In 1953, SG Joshi coined the term Oral submucous Fibrosis for a similar condition. The disease predominantly affects people of South-East Asian origin. We describe a case of a 9 year old child with this condition.