Malignant transformation rate based stratification model for oral potentially malignant disorders: A potential idea.

ABSTRACT: By the virtue of heterogeneous biological aggressiveness, oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) comprise the ideal group of disorders for biological behavior-based classification system. Concerning the exponentially increasing incidence and mortality of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), it has now become a need of the hour to formulate a classification system for OPMDs that even a general dental surgeon could apply in everyday clinical practice. With this view in mind, efforts have been made to stratify various OPMDs based on their malignant transformation rate (MTR). Databases like PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science and CINHAL were used for searching the appropriate papers. Preferences were given to meta-analyses and cohort studies for determining the value of MTRs. In other cases,

SUBMITTER: Sarode GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452235 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature