This report includes a case of buccal tuberculosis on a 20 year-old male, who complained the swelling of the right cheek after mandibular molar tooth extraction.
At the first examination we diagnosed this case as purulent mandibular ostitis. Upon administration of ampicillin for ten days, the swelling impoved. Histopathological examination showed tuberculosis features, and then we found pulmonary tuberculosis lesion in the chest X-ray.
The patient was carried to the internal department of Yokohama Minami Hospital. After chemotherapies of rifampicin, INAH and ethanbutol for two months, the buccal lesion disappeared. However three months more was required for plumonary focus therapy.
