Video - Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders and Epithelial Dysplasia: An Overview
Certain red/white/red-white lesions of the oral cavity have a potential or a higher risk to develop malignancy (oral squamous cell carcinoma [OSCC]). Earlier, WHO (1978) termed such disorders as oral precancers and classified them as precancerous lesions and precancerous conditions.
However in 2005, Oral medicine and Oral pathology experts in a workshop organized by WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Cancer and Precancer in the UK, proposed the term Oral potentially malignant disorders for defining all precursor lesions/oral precancers (lesions and conditions).
🎥 Video
This video aims to throw clarity into this topic as students and dentists alike are usually confused about oral potentially malignant disorders and interchange terms like precancers, precancerous lesions, precancerous conditions and oral potentially malignant disorders. In fact Oral Potentially Malignant Disorder is the right term to use to classify lesions that are precursors to Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Three questions are addressed in the video:
1) What’s the deal with precancerous lesions, precancerous conditions and oral potentially malignant disorders? I am confused with these terms.
2) Is epithelial dysplasia a significant predictor of malignant transformation of OPMDs?
3) Besides epithelial dysplasia, can the site and clinical appearance of an OPMD like leukoplakia be a predictor of malignant transformation?
💡Note
Though "oral cancer" is a blanket term (carcinoma or sarcoma), in this video, the term "oral cancer" is interchangeably used with oral squamous cell carcinoma.
The video doesn't go into details of specific/individual OPMDs but gives a list of all OPMDs at the end of the video.
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A deeper dive into this topic with a list of OPMDs and their key features 👇