Tehran University of Medical Sciences Frontiers in Dentistry 2676-296X 11 6 2014 12 15 721 5 Nasrollah Saghravanian Associated Professor, Department of Oromaxillofacial Pathologist, Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases Research Center, School of Dentistry, Mash-had University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Mahdi Pazouki Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, Mashhad, Iran. Maryam Zamanzadeh Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. 2015 10 16 Amelanotic melanoma is a variant of malignant melanoma comprising 2% to 8% of all malignant melanomas. The amelanotic presentation of melanoma in the oral cavity is extremely rare and has been reported only occasionally in the literature. Moreover, the lack of melanin makes these tumors difficult to diagnose than that of pigmented lesions and the prognosis tends to be poorer. Herein, we report an amelanotic melanoma involving the oral mucosa of the maxilla in a 27 year-old male. https://fid.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fid/article/view/385 https://fid.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fid/article/download/385/361