What is Leukoplakia?

Leukoplakia is a clinical term for a white oral tissue that cannot be rubbed or diagnosed as another disease. Even that leukoplakia considered as a precancerous lesion, but in most cases it is not.

What cause leukoplakia?

• Tobacco in smoked or smokeless forms.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Trauma to the tissues.
• Some form of oral fungus (candida albicans infection).
• Iron deficiency anemia.

   

Treatment:

• First step is eliminating all factors or habits that might be related to the lesion.
• Biopsy is required to check the lesion under a microscope.
• Surgery might be required in extensive cases of leukoplakia.