Intraoral tumors are pathological formations that can be seen in any part of the oral cavity. These tumors can be benign or malignant.
Intraoral tumors are pathological formations that can be seen in any part of the oral cavity. These tumors can be benign or malignant.
Benign tumors can often be resolved with interventions without causing different systemic problems in the patient. Those with malignant nature (cancer) may originate directly from a random tissue of the mouth, or they may occur as a result of the spread (metastasis) of cancers in other organs of the body to the mouth and jaw bones.
Oral and Jaw Bone Tumors can occur with or without dental origin (odontogenous) (non-odontogenic). The malignant ones (cancers) of the tumors formed in this region can lead to life-threatening and fatal conditions such as cancers seen in other parts of the body. Adequate benign tumors, on the other hand, can cause valuable aesthetic and functional disorders in the person by causing valuable damage to the tissues (for example, jaw bones) in which they are located.
For these reasons, lesions (wounds) that occur in the mouth and chin area and do not heal in about 3 weeks should definitely be evaluated by a surgeon.
CAUSES OF MOUTH AND JAW BONE TUMORS
Although the exact causes of cancer are not known, some predisposing factors have been suggested.
For oral cancers; Alcohol, cigarette consumption, bad oral hygiene, dentures that cause chronic irritations and are made incorrectly, dental crowns damaged as a result of too many dental caries, vitamin deficiencies, sun rays (especially for lip and face cancers), some sexually transmitted diseases, some viruses are valuable. size risk factor.
Race, gender, occupational and geographical factors are as effective as environmental factors in the formation of oral cancers.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF ORAL CANCERS?
Symptoms such as the presence of painless, non-bleeding lesions in the mouth that do not heal in 2-3 weeks, and the presence of white and red spots may be the early signs of oral cancers.
Symptoms such as numbness in the lips and tongue, inability of tooth extraction wounds to heal for a long time, pain and bleeding in the mouth, bad breath, swelling in the lymph nodes, and difficulty in swallowing are known as the symptoms of advanced intraoral cancers.
TREATMENTS OF MOUTH AND JAW BONE TUMORS
Generally, positive results are obtained with surgeries applied in Oral and Jaw Bone Tumors. If benign tumors have caused the destruction of the jawbone, bone formation can be achieved in that area with some graft materials specially applied to the surgery area or by removing bone from another part of the body.
However, if the malignant tumors have reached large sizes and have spread to the surrounding tissues, a treatment plan that requires multiple areas of expertise should be applied, where treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will be performed together.
Post-treatment care of tumors creates situations that require close patient-physician attention. Post-operative nutrition of the patient should be in the form that the physician deems appropriate. In post-operative care, local hostels and oral hygiene should not be neglected in any form.
In cases where jawbone or oral cavity tumor treatments are neglected or delayed; While there may be developments that lead to functional and aesthetic losses in patients, life-threatening consequences may occur as a result of near or distant spread in cancer cases.
