Evaluation of effect of a vitamin-based barrier cream on the clinical severity of actinic cheilitis: A preliminary study.

Background: Actinic Cheilitis (AC) is a pathological condition of the labial mucosa considered potentially malignant. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of treatment of AC with daily use of a vitamin-based barrier cream.

Material And Methods: For this clinical study, 36 participants with lower-lip AC were recruited from three oral medicine services.

Actinic cheilitis: proposition and reproducibility of a clinical criterion.

Objectives/aims: The actinic cheilitis (AC) is a precancerous lip lesion seen as a consequence of chronic sun exposure. Clinically, the border between the lip's skin and the semimucosa could be blurred; in the more aggressive cases, leucoplakia and ulcers also represent its clinical feature. It seems that no clinical criterion is universally accepted for this disease yet.