Various specialty clinics and research centers have conducted studies of direct tissue fluorescence visualization as a screening technique for oral premalignant lesions and early oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The effectiveness of the VELscope in a private practice setting is unknown. This pilot study is the first report to assess the VELscope system as a […]

Genetically altered cells could become widespread across the epithelium of patients with oral cancer, often in clinically and histologically normal tissue, and contribute to recurrent disease. Molecular approaches have begun to yieldinformation on cancer/risk fields; tissue optics could further extend our understanding of alteration to phenotype as a result ofmolecular change. Autori Catherine F. Poh […]

In the past decades, adjunctive techniques have emerged with claims of enhancing oral mucosal examinations and facilitating the detection of and distinctions between oral benign and oral premalignant and malignant lesions (OPML). Clinicians who use these tools may be unaware of the state of the evidence supporting their effectiveness. Techniques that are promoted or assessed […]