Melanin Pigmentation, Women, and Levodopa
Abstract
Abstract To the Editor. — In the November 1977 issue of the Archives (113:1533-1538), C. Anders Hedin, DDS, found that women constituted a high proportion of subjects with gingival melanosis due to tobacco smoking, even though these women had a lower cigarette consumption than the affected men.This female preponderance has been observed in other instances of hyperpigmentation, such as that induced by hydantoin anticonvulsants.1 In a survey of 70 patients with chlorpromazine melanosis,...