“…Several papers have reported that artefacts are common in oral mucosal biopsy specimens [1,3,7]. Some papers have also compared artefacts occurred due to different surgical techniques i.e., punch biopsy versus scalpel biopsy [8,9]. Therefore, this article highlights the different types of artefacts that occur right from the time the biopsy is surgically obtained, till all the histopathological procedures are performed.…”