A growing number of medically compromised patients are encountered by dentists in their
practices. Opportunistic fungal infections such as mucormycosis usually occur in
immunocompromised patients but can infect healthy individuals as well. Mucormycosis is an
acute opportunistic, uncommon, frequently fatal fungal infection, caused by a saprophytic
fungus that belongs to the class of phycomycetes. Among the clinical differential diagnosis
we can consider squamous cell carcinoma. Such cases present as chronic ulcers with …