Abstract:Most oral cancers lack early symptoms that would prompt a patient to seek diagnosis; hence at presentation more than 60% of patients are diagnosed with stage III or IV advanced disease. Survival rates and morbidity are dramatically improved if the disease is treated at an early stage, preferably asymptomatic in stage one. Therefore, early detection of oral cancer and oral potentially malignant lesions in the asymptomatic phase via an oral cancer screening examination is important.The core objective of this the… Show more
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