Open AccessEffectiveness of mouth self-examination for screening of oral premalignant/malignant diseases in tribal population of Dehradun district
Author(s) -
Amit Shah,
Bharat Bhushan,
Saifullah Akhtar,
Pankaj Kumar Singh,
Madhur Garg,
Mayank Gupta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_535_20
Subject(s) - medicine , population , chi square test , tribe , demography , indigenous , oral health , family medicine , dentistry , environmental health , statistics , ecology , mathematics , sociology , anthropology , biology
Mouth self-examination (MSE) is shown as a speedy, economical, and effortless method of oral cancer detection. As previous studies were conducted in population with high literacy, the current survey was performed to explore the usefulness of MSE for finding the oral cancerous precancerous lesions in indigenous low literate population of Dehradun district.