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Soreness and ulcers 3: due to vesiculobullous disease 1

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Published on April 30, 2017   37 min

Other Talks in the Series: Oral & Maxillofacial Medicine

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Hello. This talk is about soreness and ulcers due to vesiculobullous disease. And this is Dr. Nikolaos Nikitakis from the University of Athens.
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Today, we will talk about vesiculobullous diseases and under this term we can classify any disease that may affect the oral mucosa with a clinical presentation of a vesicle or a bulla. Both these terms refer to a fluid-filled cavity which is either small, less than 5 millimeters, this is a vesicle, or larger than 5 millimeter, and this is bulla. In the oral mucosa these lesions are the vesiculobullous lesions are short-lived, in other words they do not last long, they rupture easily and as a result what we will see most often will be erosions or ulcers. We may see impact blisters, vesicles, or bullae, or we may not see at all impacted blisters, instead we see the result of the breaking down, which is the erosions and ulcers that they leave behind.
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The vesiculobullous diseases affecting the oral mucosa can be classified in various categories according to their etiology and pathogenesis. The main categories are the immunologically-mediated diseases, the hereditary diseases, the allergies, and the infections. For this presentation, we will focus on the immunologically-mediated diseases. But let's briefly see the other three categories.

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