INCIDENCE OF BUCCAL PIGMENTATION IN CAUCASOIDS AND NEGROIDS IN BRITAIN

SUMMARY. One hundred consecutive coloured and 100 consecutive white European (light skinned causasoids—LSC) patients were examined to determine the incidence of buccal pigmentation. In the coloured patients it was 38% and in the LSC patients 5%. In these 5 LSC patients general examination and investigation revealed none of the disorders usually associated with buccal pigmentation, which cannot therefore be regarded as necessarily a sign of systemic disease, notably Addison's disease. In coloured patients the presence of buccal pigmentation is rarely of diagnostic significance. Copyright © 1968, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved