This review of the prevalence of oral leukoplakia reported from 1996 to 2022,by continent, definition, age, and living habits included 69 studies. The findings provided a global pooled estimate for prevalence of 3.41% (95%CI: 2.65 to 4.26%).
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This review of the rate of malignant transformation (MT) of oral leukoplakia and potential risk factors included 26 mainly retrospective studies. The findings indicate a MT of 7.2% (95%CI; 5.40 to 9.10%) similar to those of another recent review whihc estimated MT as 9.8% (95%CI; 7.9 to 11.7%).
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In her first Dental Elf blog Iris Vaid looks at a review of salivary lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) as a potential diagnostic marker for oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders.
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This review of the evidence on the malignant transformation of oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia included 17 mainly retrospective observational studies. The overall estimate for malignant transformation was 43.87% (95% CI; 31.93 to 56.13) but only 4 studies were at low risk of bias.
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This update of an earlier review of the malignant transformation rate of oral leukoplakia included 24 retrospective studies. The pooled proportion of malignant transformation was 9.8% (95%CI; 7.9 to 11.7%)
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