Oral Wound Healing: A Scoping Review and Proposal of a New Index for Palatal Mucosa.

Purpose: The aim of this scoping review was to evaluate the wound healing indices available in literature and propose a new intra-oral wound healing index to assess the healing of palatal mucosa.

Materials And Methods: A PubMed database search was conducted to identify relevant studies using the search strategy: ('Oral Wound healing') OR ('Palatal tissue healing') OR ('Healing indices in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery') OR ('Palatal wound healing') OR ('Complications in wound healing'). A qualitative and quantitative synthesis of the results was done and data was presented following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines.