[On the problem of diagnostics and treatment of herpetic infection in the oral cavity].

A clinical case of herpetic manifestation in the mouth is described as a grave gingivostomatitis in a child aged 12. Chronology and symptomatics of the disease are analyzed in details as well as the difficulties both in diagnostics and treatment. Some important moments are discussed that usually aggravate the clinical picture and the treatment of similar conditions--including an antibiotic from penivillin group in the treatment, the presence of cutting teeth with inflammatory alterations around them, extraction. All possible diseases in the oral cavity are analyzed that could give a similar symptomatics as well as the tactics of the stomatologist until making the final diagnosis. The diagnosis was ex juvantibus elucidated Symptomatic treatment was carried out and paraclinical examinations performed enabling the authors to make the diagnosis recurrent herpetic infection with not typical course upon the oral mucosa induced by the virus of herpes simplex, type I.