Correlation of oral mucosal lesions with various habits and histopathological findings

The oral mucosa is subjected to numerous local irritants throughout the life. This makes cavity one of most common sites for various benign, premalignant and malignant lesions. These lesions can cause variety symptoms, leading severe discomfort in daily Oral generally present form ulcer, swelling, discolouration or restricted mouth opening. Hence, knowledge all these pathological becomes important their early diagnosis effective management. In our current analytical descriptive study, we studied clinical profile histopathologic findings mucosal lesions, 80 subjects. were found be more middle aged males low socioeconomic status. There was strong association between tobacco chewing smoking with occurrence Alcohol addiction often coexisted consumption; weakly associated only Aphthous stomatitis submucous fibrosis benign respectively. Most lesion squamous cell carcinoma buccal mucosa. History examination needed study type, site, gross appearance extent lesion. However intra-oral biopsy gold standard making accurate Knowledge obtained through this clinico-histopathological useful make