Prevalence of oral lesions diagnosed by UnicenP Histopathology Laboratory

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 – 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%).