Oral Cancers Adjacent to Dental Implants: A Descriptive Study

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Maria Luna-Berral Alberto Rodriguez Archilla

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Alberto Rodriguez Archilla
Department of Stomatology, Oral Medicine Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Granada, Colegio Maximo, s/n. Campus de Cartuja, 18071-Granada, Spain

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Background: Trauma and chronic inflammation are controversial factors because of their potential role as an initiator or as an aggravating factor in the oral carcinogenesis process. Dental implants are related to chronic inflammatory processes and could act as a potential risk factor for oral cancer. Objective: To analyze the oral cancer cases adjacent to dental implants. Methodology: A PubMed database search on studies of oral cancers adjacent to dental implants was conducted. Statistical analysis: The descriptive statistic included means, standard deviations, ranges and percentages. For the comparison of continuous variables, the Student's t-test was used and, for the comparison of categorical variables the Pearson Chi-square test was applied. Results: Thirty studies describing 62 cases of oral cancer adjacent to dental implants were included in this review. These cancers were observed more frequently in patients with an average age of almost 67 years, female gender and mandibular location. The most prevalent harmful habit was the combined consumption of tobacco and alcohol and the most common oral risk lesion was leukoplakia. Almost all were oral squamous cell carcinomas and half were moderately differentiated. Conclusion: Oral cancers adjacent to dental implants seem to have similar characteristics than tumors not related to dental implants.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Tue 04, Jun 2019
Accepted: Fri 14, Jun 2019
Published: Tue 02, Jul 2019

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© 2023 Alberto Rodriguez Archilla. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.DOBCR.2019.03.04