Abstract

Bone, liver, sürrenal gland and brain are the usual sites for lung cancer metastasis. Hovvever, gingival metastasis of lung cancer is seldom. A fifty-seven year-old male patient who had been followed-up vvith large celi lung cancer vvas admitted to the hospital because of gingival bleeding. We have found a fragile, sore and hard tesion on anterior localisation of iovver gingiva on oral cavity examination. Histopathology revealed metastasis of large celi lung cancer. Palliative radiotherapy vvas applied to gingiva. Oral cavity of the cancer patients suffering from serious gingival bleeding should be examined carefully before applying invasive procedures, and gingival metastasis should be kept in mind for differentiai diagnosis.