In the natural history of malignant tumours, oral metastasis is uncommon. Mandibular bone marrow is the most common site affected. Metastasis to the oral soft tissues or peri-odontium is extremely rare. A case of metastatic lung carcinoma to the lower gingiva in a 75-year-old man is presented. The rapidly-growing gingival tumor appeared at an unhealed tooth-extraction site one month after the completion of radiotherapy for lung carcinoma. The gingival tumor was histopathologically diagnosed as large cell carcinoma with giant cells which was identical to the cytological feature of the previous lung carci-noma. The patient received supportive treatment but eventually died due to multi-organ failure. Therefore, more attention should be paid to the differential diagnosis of oral lesions if aerodigestive tract malignancy is present.