Prevalência de malignidade das lesões bucais do projeto de diagnóstico bucal da UNISC.

Abstract

The present prevalence study is a cross-sectional research done on Projeto de Diagnóstico Bucal da Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, RS (UNISC) [project of buccal diagnosis from University of Santa Cruz do Sul in Rio Grande do Sul]. It has as major objective identify the prevalence of malignant buccal lesions, associated with age, gender, tobacco use and buccal sites most affected. For obtaining data, we use as research instrument the medical records patient attended on Projeto de Diagnóstico Bucal from UNISC. The data analysis was realized with the patients who had their medical records forwarded to biopsy in the period between january of 2012 to july of 2018. One hundred and ninety-four medical records were obtained: 147 has benign lesions, 33 has malignant lesions and 14 has diagnosis to be clarified. In relation with gender, women are majority in this research. The age ranged from 7 to 87 years. The site most affected by malignant lessions was the tongue, in 4,5% of the cases. In relation with the features, the most common malignant lesion was squamous cell carcinoma, and the most frequent benign lesion was inflammatory fibrous hyperplasia. These results confirm the other studies done previously in Brazil. Because of this study was possible know demands of soft tissue injuries on the population of region of comprehensiveness of UNISC, and we expected that this study serve as subsidy to update the data from Projeto de Diagnóstico Bucal, besides plan prevention strategies and treatment to these buccais problems. In front of this information, the social relevance of this is project is comproved, because of the high number of people attended at UNISC and its resolutiveness, in view of knowledge about lesions examined.