Prevalence of oral and maxillofacial diseases diagnosed in an Oral Medicine service during a 7-year period

Abstract

AbstrAct:Prevalence of oral and maxillofacial diseases is highly variable depending on the region, country and source of the data. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of oral and maxillofacial diseases diagnosed in an Oral Medicine service during a 7-year period. All clinical charts from patients attending the service in the period were reviewed to retrieve demographic and clinical data; diagnosis were classified in groups, distributed in absolute and relative values and analyzed with respect to their frequency. A total of 1075 clinical charts were reviewed and females represented 60% of the sample. Mean age of the patients was 41 years (ranging from 1 month to 94 years old) and most patients were in their fourties to fifties. A total of 1444 oral diseases were diagnosed and the most prevalent groups were soft-tissue tumors (184 cases, 12.7%), developmental defects (161, 11.2%) and epithelial diseases (127, 8.8%). Individually, the most frequent diseases included fibrous hyperplasias (120 cases, 8.3%), candidosis (77, 5.3%), periradicular inflammatory lesions (72, 5.0%) and potentially malignant disorders (52, 3.6%). Oral carcinomas represented 2.5% of the sample (36 cases). The present results reflect the frequency of oral diseases diagnosed in a specialized service in southeastern Brazil and will allow the establishment of preventive strategies and the adequacy of the clinical services offered to the target population.

Referral pattern of oral and maxillofacial surgery cases in Sudan: A retrospective age-and sex-specific analysis of 3,478 patients over four years

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“…While hospitals with an elective procedural scope tend to have more developmental deformities and pathological diseases, trauma is more common in hospitals possessing an emergency scope [ 2 , 8 , 10 ]. Furthermore, studies focused on outpatient populations may differ compared to inpatient focused studies [ 11 ]. The OMFS department in KTDH is the biggest in Sudan and is a highly equipped maxillofacial center.…”

Oral and oropharyngeal mucosal lesions: clinical-epidemiological study of patients attended at a reference center for infectious diseases

“…Age group and skin color can vary depending on the study, as some studies on OOPML report a similar distribution, 13 , 16 , 21 , 32 while others report a female majority. 6 , 9 , 14 , 16 , 32 The male predominance in the present study may be related to the higher frequency of GID and Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), diseases which are more common in men; 33 , 34 , 35 in contrast, benign lesions, mainly inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia, occur more frequently in women. 6 , 9 , 13 Most of our patients had low education levels similar to that observed by Souza et al (2017).…”

“…In other epidemiological surveys, oral lesions of non-odontogenic/non-periodontal infectious diseases range from 0.8% to 23.2%, mostly restricted to herpes, PCM, and candidiasis, with the latter being the most frequent. 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13…”

Calcifying cystic odontogenic tumor of maxila

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