Featured Patient Case #2

79-year-old male presents with a painful lesion on the gingiva #9 of one month.

History of the lesion:

• Lesion has grown over a few years.

Oral examination:

• 2 x 0.8 cm well defined ulceroproliferative nodule with rolled out margin and partly covered by yellow pseudomembrane on the facial gingival margin of #9.