introduction :  despite  recent  advances  in  treatment  of  oral  cancer,  it  still causes high rates of mortality and morbidity worldwide. delays in diagnosis and treatment of these cancers greatly affect the prognosis.  this study aimed to assess the treatment delay and its relation to diagnostic delay among oral cancer patients in tehran, iran. materials and methods : we studied 100 patie...

1Sonal B Dudhia, 2Bhavin B Dudhia, 3Jigna S Shah 1Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Dental Radiology, College of Dental Science Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 2Associate Professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Dental Radiology, Ahmedabad Dental College and Hospital Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 3Professor and Head, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Ora...

Introduction: Diagnosis, prediction and control of oral lesions is usually done classically based on clinical signs and histopathologic features. Due to lack of timely diagnosis in all conventional methods or differential diagnosis, biopsy of patient is needed. Therefore, the patient might be irritated. So, an intelligent method for quick and accurate diagnosis would be crucial. Intelligent sys...

Rita de Cássia Mardegan1 Mary Ann Foglio2 Reginaldo Bruno Gonçalves3 José Francisco Höfling4 1DDS, MSc, Graduate Student at the University of Campinas – Piracicaba Dental School Department of Oral Diagnosis, São Paulo, Brazil 2DDS, PhD, Professor Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture (CPQBA) Department of Phytochemical, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil 3DDS, PhD, Profe...

Medicine, particularly with respect to diagnostic decision-making, has seen remarkable advances in the last ten years. The art of diagnosis has become much more of a science. Basic science advances have moved from the laboratory into the hospital and radically changed the way a medical diagnosis is arrived at or confirmed. Dentistry, especially oral diagnosis, as yet has not been a significant ...