Prevalence, sex distribution of oral lesions in patients attending an oral diagnosis clinic in Sulaimani University

J. Abdullah, Mustafa; M. Gaphor, Shanaz

	Prevalence, sex distribution of oral lesions in patients attending an oral diagnosis clinic in Sulaimani University
Journal of baghdad college of dentistry
Article 1, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 67-73
Authors
Mustafa J. Abdullah; Shanaz M. Gaphor
Abstract
ABSTRACTBackground: Oral lesions prevalence studies are important to know the state of health and the needs of treatment.The age, gender, educational, socioeconomic, and cultural levels, smoking, medications used, and systemicdiseases are factors that could predispose the presence of oral lesions. The present study was designed to determinethe prevalence of oral lesions in patients who visit the Oral Diagnosis Clinic of the College of Dentistry, University ofSulaimani.Patients and methods: This prospective study was performed on 3144 patients from July 2009-July 2010. In this study atotal of 3144 patients were examined. Of these 1507 (47.93%) were males and 1637 (52.06%) females. The patients'age ranged between 10 to 79 years. An interview was conducted to collect information using a structuredquestionnaire which was completed by each patient. The lesions that could not be diagnosed by clinicalexamination alone were analyzed histopathologically.Results: Among the 3144 patients, only 799 patients (25.41%) had one or more oral lesions. The number of oral lesionswas 905. Females constituted 49.81% (n=398) and males 50.18% (n=401). Oral lesions were classified according to thefollowing seven categories: tongue lesions (9.70%), anatomic changes (8.71%), white lesions (4.8%), ulcerated lesions(3.1%), candidiasis (1.3%), benign lesions (1.05%) and malignant lesions (0.03%). Tongue lesions were highlysignificantly more common among males (12.07%) than in females (7.51%). Denture stomatitis, Denture inducedfibrous hyperplasia, and Torus palatinus were significantly more common among females than in males (P<0.05),while hairy tongue, Ankyloglossia, Fordyce granule were highly significantly more common among males than infemales. Linea alba was highly significantly more common among females (5.86%) than in males (3.64%).Conclusion: Routine examinations of oral cavities are valuable in identifying several oral lesions and this will help toestablish early diagnosis and treatment and better prognosis particularly early precancerous and other oral lesions.Keywords: Abnormalities, oral mucosal lesions, prevalence. (J Bagh Coll Dentistry 2011;23(3): 67-73).

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