A Case Report of Oral Pigmentation - Post-Inflammatory or Psoriasiform Lesions

Abstract

Intraoral pigmentation occurs in various physiologic and pathologic conditions. Many of these are the manifestations of systemic diseases that too dermatologic conditions in specific. Here with reporting a case of intraoral brownish pigmentation in a young adult female who was treated for mild dermal lesions of psoriasis which was reported to be either post inflammatory pigmentation or psoriasiform oral manifestations. The pattern of mucosal pigmentation is nonspecific and there is lack of recent research regarding etiopathogenesis.