Premium
Prevalence and distribution of oral lesions: a cross‐sectional study in Turkey
Author(s) -
Mumcu G,
Cimilli H,
Sur H,
Hayran O,
Atalay T
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
oral diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.953
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1601-0825
pISSN - 1354-523X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2004.01062.x
Subject(s) - tongue , medicine , turkish population , lesion , population , stomatitis , tongue disease , dentistry , dermatology , surgery , pathology , biochemistry , chemistry , environmental health , genotype , gene
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of oral lesions (OLs) in Turkish population. Subjects and Methods: In this cross‐sectional study, 765 residents (F/M: 375/390) were selected by the cluster sampling method and examined according to WHO criteria. Results: Excessive melanin pigmentation (6.9%) was the most common lesion in the study population. The tongue lesions observed in this study were as follows: fissured tongue (5.2%), varices (4.1%), hairy tongue (3.8%), geographic tongue (1.0%), atrophic tongue papillae (0.7%) and ankyloglossia (0.3%). The denture‐related lesions were denture stomatitis (4.3%), suction irritation (0.8%), denture hyperplasia and torus palatinus as bony lesion (0.5%) and traumatic ulcers (0.3%). In regression analysis, being 65 years old and over was found as a statistically significant risk factor for the occurrence of pigmentation, fissured tongue, varices, hairy tongue, denture stomatitis and petechiae ( P < 0.05). Conclusions: Pigmentation, fissured tongue and denture stomatitis were observed to be the most common lesions in Turkish population. Elderly population was a significant risk factor for occurrence of some OLs.