• What features of oral ulcers would suggest viral infection as the cause?

• What tests are available to identify the presence of viral infection? For which orofacial infections might they be diagnostic?

• What treatment and advice would be appropriate for the parent of a child with primary Herpes simplex infection?

• What are the significant complications of Herpes zoster infection of the head and neck?

• A child has small ulcers on the palate suggestive of viral infection. How would you investigate them? Should they be advised to take time off school?

• Are universal infection control procedures sufficient for a patient with oral primary syphilis?

• Why do candidal infections tend to recur?

• A patient presents with angular stomatitis. How should they be investigated and treated and what would you do if treatment failed?

• How may a traumatic ulcer be differentiated from squamous cell carcinoma?

• How would you investigate a patient with recurrent aphthous stomatitis to exclude underlying predisposing causes?

• What treatments are available for recurrent aphthous stomatitis? What are their advantages and disadvantages?

• What questions would you ask a patient if you were considering making the diagnosis of Behçet’s disease?

• Which chronic mucosal diseases cause persistent ulcers?

• How may lichen planus and lichenoid reactions be differentiated?

• What is the value of biopsy in the diagnosis of lichen planus?

• How would you investigate a patient with desquamative gingivitis to differentiate the possible causes?

• What are the similarities and differences between the lesions of lupus erythematosus and lichen planus?

• How may the chronic ulcers of vesiculo-bullous diseases be differentiated from those in lichen planus?

• What special precautions are required when taking a biopsy for the diagnosis of pemphigus or pemphigoid?

• Primary herpetic gingivostomatitis and severe erythema multiforme may present with similar lesions. How would you differentiate these two conditions?

• Which laboratory investigations may aid diagnosis for a patient with a sore but apparently normal tongue?

• What conditions would you co/>