eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2016-08-21 9 2 843 845 10.13005/bpj/1014 8067 article Sudha Jimson 1 L. Malathi 1 G. M. Kailash Kumar 1 N. Balachander 1 Dept of Oral Pathology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath University, Pallikaranai, Chennai-600100. Microscopic examination of histological section of the tissue does not always related to normal histology or pathology .processing of tissue specimen is a length procedure. Defects are common in this lengthy procedure and they are referred as Artifact.Accuracy of the histopathological diagnosis depends on eliminating or minimizing the artifact in histological section. These artifacts may occur during surgical removal, fixation, processing, embedding, microtomy and staining procedures. It is therefore important to identify the common occurring artifacts during interpretation of oral biopsies. https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol9no2/artifact-in-histological-section/ histological section  pathological  embedding microtomy