Diagnostic criteria in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: evaluation.

Objectives: to evaluate the ability of the diagnostic criteria proposed by Cerero et al in 2010 to perform an early diagnose in patients with proliferative verrucous leukoplakia.

Study Design: retrospective study with patients diagnosed with leukoplakia at Oral Medicine Service at Oral Medicine and Surgery Department at Dentistry Faculty at Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

Results: the criteria were applied in 116 patients, turning positive in 40 cases.

[Oral ulcers].

Ulcers commonly occur in the oral cavity, their main symptom being pain. There are different ways to classify oral ulcers. The most widely accepted form divides them into acute ulcers--sudden onset and short lasting--and chronic ulcers--insidious onset and long lasting.

Corticoids: their use in the pathology of the oral mucosa.

The etiology of a great number of processes that affect the oral mucosa is yet quite unclear. It is generally known that many of them develop into a chronic and unspecific inflammatory process, occasionally of possible immunologic cause. Treatment therefore is not aimed on their cause but on their symptoms.