Noma, also known as cancrum oris or gangrenous stomatitis, is now officially recognized as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), according to an announcement made by the World Health Organization (WHO).

S. L. Sprague, M.D.

Kampala — JOYCE Fuocan was born a normal child 12 years ago. She says a bout of malaria left her with fever blisters inside her mouth. "Others healed, but one progressed into a hole on my cheek," she ...

Noma, otherwise known as necrotising ulcerative stomatitis, gangrenous stomatitis or cancrum oris is a bacterial infectious but non-contagious infection; resulting from poor oral hygiene, lack of ...

Doctors at the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation-run Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital have successfully recreated the lost lower lip and trimmed the overgrown lower jaw of a 23-year-old youth ...

Known medically as Cancrum Oris, Noma is a brutal bacterial infection that attacks the faces of children, often within days of onset. Without swift intervention, it kills 90 per cent of its victims , ...

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