What’s causing this facial swelling and ulceration?

Ken, 19 years old, attends complaining of several weeks’ history of recurrent left facial swelling over the left angle of the mandible.

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Dr Jacinta Vu is an oral medicine specialist, consultant at Perth Children’s Hospital and clinical senior lecturer at the University of WA Dental School, who practises in Perth, WA.