Internal medicine

Pathology

Cancer

Dermatology

Dysplasia

Biopsy

Oral lichen planus

Leukoplakia

Oral mucosa

Oral submucous fibrosis

Epithelial dysplasia

Premalignant lesion

Malignant transformation

Medicine

Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology

The term oral potentially malignant disorders, proposed at the World Health Organization workshop in 2005, has now been renamed potentially premalignant oral epithelial lesions (PPOELs). It is important to differentiate among PPOELs, which is a broad term to define a wide variety of clinical lesions, and oral epithelial dysplasia, which should be reserved specifically for lesions with biopsy-proven foci of dysplasia. PPOELs encompass lesions that include leukoplakia, erythroplakia, erythroleukoplakia, lichen planus, and oral submucous fibrosis.

Management update of potentially premalignant oral epithelial lesions