Oral thrush is an infection which develops inside the cheeks, on the tongue, on the gum pads and on the tonsils. So, generally known as oro pharyngeal candidiasis or candidiasis. Candida albicans is the fungus which causes oral thrush. So, oral thrush also occurs in case of depressed immunity. So, like HIV patients, AIDS patients, leukemia, uncontrolled diabetes, denture wearers and in case of stress, when there is a trauma to the maxillofacial and when there a injury to the nerve damage to the

Tongue can show different varieties of lesions,both red lesions, white lesions, there will be some black pigments on the tongue. So some of them are normalvariations and some could be injurious later. So most commonly what we see is candidiasis, mostly we see in HIV patients and immune compromised patients. There is something called leukoplakia, again a white lesion on the tongue which is most commonly seen in patients having smoking habit. Chronic smokers there are other lesions like lichen pla