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Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population
BACKGROUND: Oral mucosa is encountered by various lesions and normal variants. Some are not to be worried about, whereas others may be of significance. Knowing the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in a particular region helps better evaluate, diagnose, and, thus, manage these lesions. OBJECTIVES:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10599919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9375084 |
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author | Gupta, Abhishek Shrestha, Parikshya Poudyal, Sijan Kumar, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ram Sudan Acharya, Surendra Kumar Shivhare, Peeyush |
author_facet | Gupta, Abhishek Shrestha, Parikshya Poudyal, Sijan Kumar, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ram Sudan Acharya, Surendra Kumar Shivhare, Peeyush |
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description | BACKGROUND: Oral mucosa is encountered by various lesions and normal variants. Some are not to be worried about, whereas others may be of significance. Knowing the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in a particular region helps better evaluate, diagnose, and, thus, manage these lesions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence and distribution of oral mucosal lesions and normal variants among various age groups, genders, and sites of the orofacial region. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital from January 2021 to March 2021. Three different proformas were designed according to age, gender, and location of lesions for entry as per the WHO's guide. The obtained data were entered into a Microsoft Excel sheet for frequency analysis by SPSS, and the results were tabulated. RESULTS: Among the records of 16572 (9703 (58.55%) males and 6869 (41.44%) females) OPD patients, 3495 (21.08%) (1934 (55.33%) males and 1561 (44.66%) females) had OMLs and 2314 (13.96%) (1626 (70.26%) males and 688 (29.73%) females) had normal mucosal variants. The most commonly seen OML categories were tobacco-associated lesions, i.e., 2056 (34.07%), tongue lesions, i.e., 1598 (26.48%), oral potentially malignant disorders, i.e., 815 (13.50%), ulcers i.e., 728 (12.06%), and infectious lesions, i.e., 256 (4.24%). CONCLUSION: The Nepalese population has a wide range of oral mucosal lesions and normal variants, and this study has attempted to have baseline data for the same. The most common OML was smoker's melanosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-105999192023-10-26 Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population Gupta, Abhishek Shrestha, Parikshya Poudyal, Sijan Kumar, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ram Sudan Acharya, Surendra Kumar Shivhare, Peeyush Biomed Res Int Research Article BACKGROUND: Oral mucosa is encountered by various lesions and normal variants. Some are not to be worried about, whereas others may be of significance. Knowing the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in a particular region helps better evaluate, diagnose, and, thus, manage these lesions. OBJECTIVES: To assess the prevalence and distribution of oral mucosal lesions and normal variants among various age groups, genders, and sites of the orofacial region. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital from January 2021 to March 2021. Three different proformas were designed according to age, gender, and location of lesions for entry as per the WHO's guide. The obtained data were entered into a Microsoft Excel sheet for frequency analysis by SPSS, and the results were tabulated. RESULTS: Among the records of 16572 (9703 (58.55%) males and 6869 (41.44%) females) OPD patients, 3495 (21.08%) (1934 (55.33%) males and 1561 (44.66%) females) had OMLs and 2314 (13.96%) (1626 (70.26%) males and 688 (29.73%) females) had normal mucosal variants. The most commonly seen OML categories were tobacco-associated lesions, i.e., 2056 (34.07%), tongue lesions, i.e., 1598 (26.48%), oral potentially malignant disorders, i.e., 815 (13.50%), ulcers i.e., 728 (12.06%), and infectious lesions, i.e., 256 (4.24%). CONCLUSION: The Nepalese population has a wide range of oral mucosal lesions and normal variants, and this study has attempted to have baseline data for the same. The most common OML was smoker's melanosis. Hindawi 2023-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10599919/ /pubmed/37885902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9375084 Text en Copyright © 2023 Abhishek Gupta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gupta, Abhishek Shrestha, Parikshya Poudyal, Sijan Kumar, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ram Sudan Acharya, Surendra Kumar Shivhare, Peeyush Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title | Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title_full | Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title_short | Prevalence and Distribution of Oral Mucosal Lesions and Normal Variants among Nepalese Population |
title_sort | prevalence and distribution of oral mucosal lesions and normal variants among nepalese population |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10599919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9375084 |
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