TABLE 2.
Prevalence of oral soft tissues lesions in elderly according to clinical presentation
| Oral Lesions | N | % |
|---|---|---|
| Inflammatory Lesions | ||
| Denture stomatitis | 1734 | 34 |
| Angular chelitis | 918 | 18 |
| Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia | 816 | 16 |
| Erythematous Candidiasis | 765 | 15 |
| Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis | 51 | 01 |
| Reactive Lesions | ||
| Pyogenic granuloma | 1122 | 22 |
| Traumatic Ulcer | 1020 | 20 |
| Frictional keratosis | 1173 | 23 |
| Fibroepithelial Hyperplasia | 561 | 11 |
| Fibroma | 459 | 09 |
| Mucocele | 204 | 04 |
| Premalignant and Malignant Lesions | ||
| Nicotinic Stomatitis | 2193 | 43 |
| Leukoplakia | 1122 | 22 |
| OSMF | 1530 | 30 |
| Lichen planus | 918 | 18 |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 110 | 02 |
| Pigmented Lesions | ||
| Amalgam Tattoo | 561 | 11 |
| Melanotic macule | 510 | 10 |
| Hemangioma | 357 | 07 |
| Nevus | 153 | 03 |
| Infectious Lesions | ||
| Aphthous Ulcers | 969 | 19 |
| Papilloma | 510 | 10 |
| Secondary herpes | 408 | 08 |
| Tongue Lesions | ||
| Fissured tongue | 306 | 06 |
| Geographic tongue | 255 | 05 |
| Coated Tongue | 153 | 03 |
| Drug-induced Lesions | ||
| Drug-induced gingival enlargement | 110 | 02 |