Histopathological Evaluation of White Lesions-An Institutional Observational Study

The most common oral manifestation of tobacco use is in the form of white lesions. They may reflectas benign, pre-malignant or malignant condition. There are no clinical signs and symptoms which canpredict whether a pre-malignant lesion or a condition will undergo malignant change or not. An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted including total of 344 casesreporting to the outpatient wing from 2004–2016. Demographic details of various white lesions of oral cavity along with histopathological findings were studied. Results showed the habit of tobacco quid placement and Gutkha chewing was followed maximum. The most common white lesion was leukoplakia andout of 344 cases 125 (36.33%) had dysplasia. 8 (2.32%) cases in our study did not have correlation between clinical and histopathological diagnosis. The aim of the study was to clinicopathologically correlate the white lesions.