A case report of neurofibromatosis

Introduction: neurofibromatosis is a genetic disease characterized by multifocal benign tumors of peripheral nerves, called neurofibromas, and pigmented spots on the skin which inherited as autosomal-dominant. the most common form of the disease is neurofibromatosis type 1, also known as von recklinghausen's disease of the skin. when an individual has small number of lesions in a limited region of the his body, it could be missed by the patient or not acknowledged by the clinicians as a form of neurofibromatosis. we present here, a case of an 18-year-old male with neurofibromatosis type 1who referred to babol dental school for a routine dental examination.