An Insight into the Recent Innovations in Early Detection of Oral Cancer

Abstract

Early diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and potentially malignant lesions and conditions is an attractive strategy to decrease patient morbidity and mortality, and thus scientists engage to find efficient diagnosis and preclinical screening approaches. The screening of patients for potentially malignant and malignant lesions by traditional methods is a historic concept. Appreciation of subtle surface changes of clinically abnormal mucosal lesions using conventional methods in conjunction with new evolving diagnostic tools has gained a lot of enthusiasm in the recent past. Various search engines for the preparation of this manuscript included PubMed, PubMed central, Science Direct, Springerlink, and google.com. This paper highlights the importance of recent adjunctive techniques used in the field of oncology for early diagnosis of oral mucosal lesions.