BDS · Oral Pathology / Oral Medicine · TOPIC 09 Oral Cancer & Premalignant Lesions India carries the highest global burden of mouth cancer — and almost every case is preceded by a visible, biopsiable lesion that the dentist sees first Oral cancer is overwhelmingly squamous cell carcinoma (over 90% of malignancies of the mouth), and India accounts for roughly one-third of the world’s cases . The defining clinical fact is that nearly every OSCC is preceded by a visible mucosal change — leukoplakia, erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis, or lichen planus — that the general dent…
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