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Prevalence of recurrent aphthous stomatitis, oral submucosal fibrosis and oral leukoplakia in doctor/nurse and police officer population

open access: yesBMC Oral Health, 2022
Background The doctor/nurse and police officer population have some common typical characteristics of great professional pressure and night shift and past studies indicated oral mucosa lesions were closely associated with psychological factors and health-
Yundong Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral Leukoplakia – Is Biopsy at the Initial Appointment a Must? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014
Background: Oral leukoplakia is a potentially malignant disorder of the oral cavity. Leukoplakias with chances of undergoing malignant transformation owing to the presence of dysplastic changes may not be clinically distinguishable from leukoplakias ...
Sunil Mutalik   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia Revisited: A Retrospective Clinicopathological Study

open access: yesClinics and Practice, 2021
(1) Objective: To review the criteria proposed by Cerero-Lapiedra et al. and to retrospectively identify the under-diagnosed disease in patients diagnosed with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
Snehashish Ghosh   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leukoplakia: A Comprehensive Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Leukoplakia is a potentially malignant disorder of the oral mucosa. It usually presents as a white patch in the oral cavity. The term leukoplakia represents a clinical entity and should preferably be used only for provisional diagnosis and not after ...
Nandan, Hemwati   +4 more
core   +1 more source

A comparative investigation of the activity of superoxide dismutase in patients with leukoplakia and healthy controls

open access: yesIndian Journal of Dental Research, 2022
Context and Aim: Oral leukoplakia has recently been re-defined as “a predominantly white lesion of the oral mucosa that cannot be characterised as any other definable lesion”.
Jobin Mathew Kuthoor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility of recruitment to an oral dysplasia trial in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) has a malignant potential. Therapeutic options for OED remain both limited and without good evidence. Despite surgery being the most common method of treating OED, recurrence and potentially significant ...
Nankivell, Paul   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Oral Manifestations of HIV Infection in Children and Adults Receiving Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy [HAART] in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of the study was to compare the prevalence and types of HIV-related oral lesions between children and adult Tanzanian patients on HAART with those not on HAART and to relate the occurrence of the lesions with anti-HIV drug regimen, clinical stage
Simon, Elison NM   +47 more
core   +2 more sources

Diagnostic criteria in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Objectives: to evaluate the ability of the diagnostic criteria proposed by Cerero et al in 2010 to perform an early diagnose in patients with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.
García-Chías, B   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Clinical periodontal diagnosis

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Salivary bacterial shifts in oral leukoplakia resemble the dysbiotic oral cancer bacteriome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Objective: While some oral carcinomas appear to arise de novo, others develop within long-standing conditions of the oral cavity that have malignant potential, now known as oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs). The oral bacteriome associated with
Banerjee, Moinak   +25 more
core   +1 more source

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