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Oral cancer and precancer related to betel and miang chewing in Thailand: a review
Author(s) -
Reichart Peter A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1995.tb01175.x
Subject(s) - medicine , areca , betel , oral cancers , cancer , dentistry , dermatology , premalignant lesion , structural engineering , nut , engineering
Historical aspects of betel and miang chewing in Thailand are decribed, as is the betel quid. Available literature on cancer and precancer in Thailand is reviewed. While oral cancer has been a major health problem in the past, changes in habit patterns with marked reduction of betel and miang chewing during the last decades have prompted a change in frequency of oral cancer in some provinces. Oral effects of miang chewing are less marked, although chewer's mucosa has been observed. Betel and miang chewing seem to be vanishing habits in Thailand in contrast to other Southeast Asian or South Asian countries.