Oral Submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a chronic insidious disease of oral mucosa that occurs due to areca-nut chewing, consumption of chillies, autoimmunity and genetic predisposition. The disease starts with burning sensation and inability to tolerate spicy foods with gradual reduction in mouth opening due to fibrosis of the oral mucosa. The extension of fibrosis into the naso pharynx leads to reduction in hearing efficiency. As very few studies had been done to evaluate the hearing disability in OSMF patients, this study had been undertaken to prove the same. To evaluate hearing efficiency in patients with Oral Submucous Fibrosis of various grades of severity. Presentation includes 30 patients of osmf with various grades and evaluated for hearing efficacy by audiometry. Hearing threshold was compared in different grades of osmf. The present study revealed a significant association between OSMF and hearing deficit. Involvement of the palatal muscles with OSMF may decrease the patency of the Eustachian tube, leading to conductive hearing loss. Therefore, the protocol for managing OSMF patients should include ENT consultation and treatment for hearing deficit in order to increase the success rate of treatment.
Pyogenic granuloma is a misnomer, as in reality it arises in response to various irritating factors such as low-grade local irritation or hormonal factors, traumatic injury as well as presented as inflammatory hyperplasia that is not related to infection. Oral pyogenic granuloma is a lobulated or smooth exophytic lesion with pedunculated or sometimes sessile base, haemorrhagic in tendency. Although excisional surgery is the treatment of choice for it, some other treatment protocols such as laser therapy, sclerotherapy with 3% polidocanol, cryotherapy and steroid therapy have also been proposed. Here, Authors present a case series of gingival as well as extra gingival pyogenic granulomas which were diagnosed and treated by various therapies i.e., surgical excision, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) laser therapy and sclerotherapy. Regression period of lesion with different therapies was evaluated in detail. Maximum patients were female in the age group of 26-50 years in present case series. Almost all cases of pyogenic granuloma had typical clinical characteristic without bony alteration. Amongst all therapies sclerotherapy had the biggest advantage of less regression period for any case of pyogenic granuloma i.e., 7-8 days only.
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