Vincent’s angina in a 17-year old girl with emotional stress: A case report

Abstract

Introduction: Vincent’s angina refers to acute necrotizing ulcerative lesions of the oral mucosal membranes and tonsils. Case Presentation: In this case, we report a 17-year old girl with emotional stress referred with symptoms of Vincent’s angina. Gram staining showed numerous fusospirochetal bacteria. With antibiotic therapy, amoxicillin and cephalexin, no clinical improvement was observed but improvement was achieved by using mouthwash and salt water. Conclusions: It seems that there is a close relationship between stress and the Vincent angina disease. Moreover, simple diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as Gram staining and using mouthwash and salt water are beneficial in case of Vincent angina.