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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 133-135 |
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Correlation between the Functional and Histological Staging of Oral Submucous Fibrosis
Ganiga Channaiah Shivakumar1, Shivakumar Sahana2
1 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Postgraduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Sardar Patel Postgraduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Ganiga Channaiah Shivakumar
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Postgraduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Room No 1, Raebareli Road, Uthratia, Lucknow-226002, Uttar Pradesh
India
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Aims: To correlate the functional and histological staging of oral submucous fibrosis.
Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 50 subjects who were clinically and histologically diagnosed as oral submucous fibrosis. Functional and histological staging were divided into four groups, as group I to IV.
Results: The 50 subjects were in the age range of 12-57 years, out of 13 (26%) subjects in functional stage I, 5 and 8 subjects were in histological Group I and II respectively: 18 (36%) subjects in functional stage III, 5 and 13 were in histological group II and III respectively.
Conclusion: Statistical analysts with Chi-square test showed highly significant with P value < 0.001 |
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