Piette, É.Service de chirurgie orale et maxillofaciale, Université de Hong Kong ; service de chirurgie maxillofaciale, plastique et reconstructrice, clinique en pratique privée Sainte-Élisabeth, Namur, Belgique
In the classical French-speaking literature, a distinction is made between "non specific" stomatites due to oral germs, and more rarely encountered "specific" stomatites due to well-defined exogenous germs which often develop systemic symptoms in addition to the oral ones.