%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalence of oral lesions diagnosed by UnicenP Histopathology Laboratory
%A Isabella Caroline BERTOJA
%A Juliana Giongo TOMAZINI
%A Ana Paula Ribeiro BRAOSI
%A Jo£¿o C¨¦sar ZIELAK
%J RSBO
%D 2007
%I University of Joinville
%X The aim of this study has fundamental importance for the factbelonging to the Public Health area as well as Oral Pathology, whoseknowledge favors the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and a correcttherapeutic to be instituted for each case. A retrospective study of1963 oral and maxillofacial lesions diagnosed by the HistopathologyLaboratory of the Scholl of Dentistry ¨C UnicenP was carried outover a 3-year period, with an analysis of prevalence of these lesions,correlating them to age and sex, through a study of the respectivelauds of histopathologic diagnosis. From the results, 82 differentdiagnoses were observed. The epidemiologic profile of these patientswas characterized by female (65,82 %), with a greater frequency onthe 5th decade of life (24%), average of 44,2 year-old age. Dataevidenced Inflammatory Fibrous Hyperplasia the most prevalentlesion (30,6%), followed by Fibroma (21,29%), Radicular Cyst (5,2%)and Mucocele (5,04%).
%K oral pathology
%K epidemiology
%K oral lesions.
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