Correlação entre o tabagismo e a leucoplasia nos pacientes tratados da Faculdade de Odontologia de Araçatuba - Unesp

• Autor(a) principal: Barreto, Larissa Freitas [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/155080; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2017-04-25/000877411.pdf
• topic: Leucoplasia bucal; Neoplasias bucais; Odontologia comunitária; Leukoplakia, Oral

Cancer is a public health disease either in developed or in developing countries and constitutes one of the main causes of death. Oral leukoplakia is the most usual premalignant lesion in the oral cavity. World Health Organization (WHO) described as a plaque or white spot that cannot be clinically or pathologically characterized like any other illness. Patients with oral leukoplakia has 36 times more likely to develop oral squamous cell carcinoma than those who haven't. Furthermore, the rate of malignant degeneration ranges according to the area, clinical features, dysplasia degree, and etiological factors (Yang et. al., 2010). The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between smoking and leukoplakia in patients treated at Oral Oncology Center - Araçatuba Dentistry School - Univ Estadual Paulista - UNESP. The patients' medical charts must be examined as much as information about their age, gender, skin color, smoking habits, biopsy type, and treatment taken