Abstract

REBOLLEDO COBOS, Martha; ESCALANTE FONTALVO, Manuel; ESPITIA NIETO, Sandra  and  CARMONA MEZA, Zenén. Types of smoking as a risk factor for oral cancer. literature review and report of two cases. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2012, vol.28, n.3, pp.438-444. ISSN 0120-5552.

Smoking corresponds to one of the most common habits in the world's population, both men and women, being a potential risk factor for developing pre-malignant and malignant lesions in the oral cavity malignancies. The different ways of using the cigarette smoking habit as conventionally, invested and passive smoking variables present in the incidence and prevalence of tumors and the type, amount and intensity of snuff consumed. The epithelial cells lining the mucosa of the oral cavity as defense mechanisms react to the stimulus of the smoke and combustion, as compared to the toxic chemicals from them, manifesting as lesions ranging from Leukoedema, nicotinic hyperkeratosis, pigmentation melanin, fibrosis epithelial precancerous lesions, carcinoma in situ, to the development of true malignancy. The stomatology plays a fundamental role in the early diagnosis and prevention of these conditions, since their task is to detect any injury in its infancy and so simplify treatment, improve the quality of life for patients, but more important to detect injury, is to prevent it appears, guiding, educating people and fighting the risk factors. Here are two new cases of active smokers who attended the Service of Stomatology and Oral Surgery of the University Foundation San Martin - Puerto Colombia, tumor lesions clinically similar oral cavity squamous carcinomas, who underwent biopsies confirmed diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma.

Keywords : Smoking; mouth neoplasm; risk factors.

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