Oral candidiasis: a brief overview

The advent of the human immunodeficiency virus infection and the increasing prevalence of compromised individuals globally have resulted in a resurgence of opportunistic infections such as oral candidoses. Despite the availability of a number of effective antimycotics for its management therapeutic failure is not uncommon. Hence this paper is an attempt to provide an overview of clinical variants of oral candidosis and the usage of antimycotics in the management of this condition