geographic tongue is a benign disorder involving the dorsal surface of the tongue characterized by depapillated areas with leading and folded edges in yellowish or grayish white color and sometimes with unclear borders. many studies have reported a relationship between such condition and different risk factors. this study aimed to investigate the prevalence rate and the risk factors of geograph...

OBJECTIVE The intraoral tactile sensitivity (ITS) of diabetic and nondiabetic subjects was compared. The effects of age, ethnicity, sex, and intraoral site were considered. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The sample comprised 589 participants of the Oral Health: San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging. A total of 107 subjects (61.8 +/- 10.0 years; 48 women, 59 men) met American Diabetes Associati...

Granular cell tumor is an uncommon benign hamartomatous lesion occurring in almost any part of the body. Granular cell lesions may be found in other diverse sites, such as the jaw, skin, gastrointestinal tract and respiratory tract. The tongue and buccal mucosa are common intraoral sites. The histogenesis of the lesion remains unknown. In this paper, we report the occurrence of an oral granular...

Schwannomas or neurilemmomas are benign, slow growing, usually solitary and encapsulated tumor, originating from Schwann cells of the nerve sheath. Intraoral schwannoma accounts for 1% of head and neck region and are commonly seen at the base region of tongue. Most of the few such reports in the literature, have described schwannomas that occurred in the tongue. In this article, we report a rar...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to evaluate the orofacial lesions in treated leprosy patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS 160 treated patients at Maharogi Seva Samithi, Warora were examined clinically. RESULTS Of 160 patients studied, 140 (87.5%) was of lepromatous types, 100 patients presented with depressed nasal bridge, 64 presented with hypopigmented macules on face. Intraoral examinatio...

Objectives: Globally, oral cancer seems to be the sixth-utmost common cancer. Oral is chief among entire malignant tumors of men in Indian subcontinent and squamous cell carcinoma commonest all malignancies. Hence, present study, utility aspiration scrape cytology screening initial diagnosis lesions, confirm by histopathology, were studied. Methods: The enrolled patients underwent complete clin...

Introduction: The lower lip-split incision was first described by Roux in the mid 19th century and was later modified by Trotter and Konig. This incision has been widely used in the field of head and neck oncology surgeries for accessing intraoral tumours along with its extension in neck dissection when combined with mandibulectomy or mandibulotomy. Over the years, this incision has been modifi...

background: betel nut and betel quid chewing are from major etiological factor for oral cancer. they also increase the risk of systemic diseases such as asthma, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, myocardial infarction, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases. methods: sixty three patients of oral cancer in our institution during jan. 2007 to may 2011 were included in our study. this...

BACKGROUND Intraoral sebaceous carcinoma is a rare form of sebaceous carcinoma with only 9 published cases in the world literature to date. We present a 10th case of intraoral sebaceous carcinoma located in the anterior maxillary gingiva with metastases to the lung and subcutis and discuss 3 possible etiologies for this unique presentation. METHODS We analyze the clinical presentation, pathol...