Oral Health and Dental Management

Chemoprevention in potentially malignant disorders

30^th Annual Conference on Dental Practice and Oral Health

September 18-19, 2017 Hong Kong

Khushboo Singh

Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The word chemoprevention includes prevention of initiation, promotion and progression of carcinogenesis to cancer. Oral cancer is a major health problem in Asian Subcontinent with poor survival rate. It is a well-known fact in the literature that most of the times oral cancer develops from some oral potentially malignant disorders. Chemoprevention can be a promising treatment strategy. Chemoprevention studies have focused on clinicopathological features of potentially malignant lesions in an effort to prevent their progression to cancer. This poster will highlight the various chemopreventive agents and their role in various oral potentially malignant lesions.