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Graphite tattoo: report of a case and differential diagnosis
1Department of Periodontics, Naval Dental Center, Long Beach, CA 90822.
Military Medicine
|June 11, 1992
Abstract:
A case report underlining the necessity of the biopsy procedure for a pigmented lesion of unknown origin. A female patient was referred for evaluation of a pigmented lesion on the facial keratinized gingiva coronal to the free gingival margin above tooth No. 7. An excisional biopsy revealed a graphite tattoo. A discussion and differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions follows.