When eugenol is used in dental preparations such as surgical pastes, dental packing, and dental cement, it may cause contact stomatitis and allergic cheilitis.
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Allergies to metal, wood, or other components can cause cheilitis reactions in musicians, especially players of woodwind and brass instruments, " e . g . ", the so-called " clarinetist's cheilitis ", or " flutist's cheilitis " . " Pigmented contact cheilitis " is one type of allergic cheilitis in which a brown-black discoloration of the lips develops.