Oral leukoplakia: Management protocol for primary health-care providers and family physicians

• Main Authors: Ashok Kumar Jena (Author), Jitendra Sharan (Author), Swapnil Ghodke (Author), V Anusuya (Author), Uday Hemant Barhate (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral cancer is very common in India. Most of the oral cancers develop on a potentially malignant (precancerous) lesion. Leukoplakia is the most common precancerous lesion in the oral cavity. The malignant transformation rate of oral leukoplakia is very high. There is no marker to distinguish those l...