Two cases of recurrent herpetic infection of the tongue

Recently, a number of reports have been published on recurrent herpetic infection of the oral mucosa. In most of these cases, the infected tissue is the fixed intraoral mucosa, such as the gingiva or hard palate. Infection of movable mucosa such as the tongue, which is reported in the present paper, has not been reported in detail previously. In each of the two cases reported in the present paper, intraoral lesions were diagnosed as recurrent herpes-glossitis after isolation of the herpes simplex virus (HSV).