oral fibrosis

 

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a premalignant disorder associated with the chewing of areca nut (betel nut). The habit is widespread in Asian populations but is nowadays also recognized in North America and Europe. The mixture of areca nut and tobacco has resulted in a marked increase in OSF frequency. Blanching and stiffness of oral mucosa, trismus, burning sensation, loss of idiom mobility, and loss of gustatory sensation are characteristic of the disease.

Definition of Oral Submucous Fibrosis – OSMF is a chronic illness observed in persons who chew betel (Areca catechu) nuts, gutkha or pan masala – and is defined by tightening of the buccal, and sometimes palatal and lingual mucosa, causing truisms.

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic progressive and irreparable disease moving the oral, or pharyngeal, and infrequently the esophageal mucous.

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, complex, premalignant condition of the oral cavity, characterize by juxta-epithelial provocative response and progressive fibrosis of the sub mucosal tissues .

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF), though not regard as a connective tissue disease, has pathological change closely similar to those of scleroderma. Unlike the latter, which has harsh effects on the skin but smallest effects on the oral mucosa, OSMF causes severe and often disabling fibrosis of the oral tissues alone.

Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSMF) is a precancerous condition resulting from habit to tobacco chewing. It is a complex illness that is pre-malignant

ral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a chronic incapacitating permanent oral potentially evil disarray moving any part of the oral hole.

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a unrelenting, progressive, pre-cancerous state of the oral mucosa, which is related with betel quid chewing habit

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