Background: Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, fibrotic and crippling disease that affects the oral mucosa. It leads to progressive mainly involves buccal mucosa but other parts of cavity such as tongue palate can also be affected. There general consensus areca nut its constituents are responsible for pathogenesis disease. On histological examination biopsy taken from human mucosa, OSMF pres...

Introduction: Usage of tobacco is prevalent worldwide in some or other form in all age groups. Smoking and tobacco use is a major public health issue in developing countries. As Rajasthan is a place with different cultural and traditional variations when compared with other parts of the world. To extract if the same diversity exists in the usage of tobacco in Jaipur district Rajasthan, this stu...

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, insidious disease affecting the oral cavity and sometimes pharynx. Although occasionally preceded and/or associated with vesicle formation, is always associated with juxtaepithelial inflammatory reaction followed by fibro elastic changes in lamina propria with epithelial atrophy leading to stiffness of oral cavity leading to trismus and inability to eat. Al...

Amongst the list of pre-malignant conditions, Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSMF) forms one of the most debilitating diseases of the oral cavity. It is predominantly seen among populations using betel quid, indicating areca nut as the most conspicuous agent in the etiological agents. A clear dosedependent relationship In relation to both the duration and frequency of chewing areca nut was revealed, ...

Worldwide, oral carcinoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and is one of the 10 most common causes of death. If oral cancers and cancers of nasopharynx, pharynx, larynx, sinus and salivary glands are combined, these sites represent more than 5% of total body cancers. Approximately 95% of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) occurs in people older than 40 years. However OSCC at a young age ha...

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, progressive, disabling and scarring disease that affects the entire oral cavity, sometimes the pharynx, and rarely the larynx which predominantly affects the people of southeast Asia. It is characterized by blanching and stiffness of the oral mucosa, which causes progressive limitation of mouth opening and intolerance/ burning sensation to hot and spicy foo...