Retrospective study of oral and maxillofacial lesions in older Taiwanese patients

Abstract

The present study showed trends similar to previous reports from other countries. However, some detailed information was different, perhaps due to the different criteria and different geographic distribution. Worthy of note, our results indicated that screening for oral potentially malignant disorder and oral malignancy in the older population is essential.

A retrospective multicentre study of cystic lesions and odontogenic tumours in older people

“…These results are similar to those found in the present study; however, although these lesions are overall rare in older people, they were more common in our population. In addition, the lesions most commonly found in these groups in the study of Lei et al were radicular cyst, ameloblastoma and epidermoid cyst, respectively. Our results agree with those obtained by these authors, except for salivary duct cyst, which was the most common non‐odontogenic cyst detected in the present study.…”

“…In the present study, 7619 cases were evaluated. In a similar study conducted by Lei et al in Taiwan, 7726 cases of oral and maxillofacial lesions were evaluated in older people. Of all cases, 3.3% (n = 255) were odontogenic cysts, 0.3% (n = 25) were odontogenic tumours and 0.16% (n = 13) were non‐odontogenic cysts.…”

“…These results are similar to those found in the present study; however, although these lesions are overall rare in older people, they were more common in our population. In addition, the lesions most commonly found in these groups in the study of Lei et al27 were radicular cyst, TA B L E 4 Gender and anatomical site of non-odontogenic cysts in the elderly population , female; n, number of cases; M, male; %, percentage.…”

A Multicenter Study of Tongue Lesions from Thailand

“…There have been several epidemiological studies on oral mucosal lesions and tongue lesions constitute a considerable proportion of the oral lesions, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] but information specific to the tongue lesions is difficult or impossible to extract from those studies. Prevalence of tongue lesions varies in different parts of the world due to demographic and/or geographic differences of the sample studied, as well as differences in the diagnostic criteria, study methodology, and sampling process 14 ; hence conducting studies on the prevalence of tongue lesions in different geographic regions seems imperative.…”

“…Prevalence of tongue lesions varies in different parts of the world due to demographic and/or geographic differences of the sample studied, as well as differences in the diagnostic criteria, study methodology, and sampling process 14 ; hence conducting studies on the prevalence of tongue lesions in different geographic regions seems imperative. Pediatric and geriatric patients are special groups of general population which elicit distinctive oral mucosal lesions, [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]15 so it is interesting to know whether tongue as a subsite of the oral mucosa does the same thing. Most of the previous studies were based on clinical observations without histopathological examination.…”