Table 5.
Responses to Practice Questions on OSCC
| Health care professionals | Dental (Specialist) (n=62) |
Dental (GP) (n =38) |
Dental student (n =156) |
Medical (Specialist) (n = 16) |
Medical (GP) (n = 7) |
Medical student (n = 53) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you examine patients and oral mucosa routinely? | 46 (74.20%) |
26 (68.40%) |
109 (69.90%) |
7 (43.80%) |
2 (28.60%) |
14 (26.40%) |
| If “No” to the above , do you screen the oral mucosa if the patients are in high categories? | 28 (77.80%) |
12 (60.00%) |
54 (63.50%) |
6 (50.00%) |
4 (66.70%) |
21 (56.80%) |
| Do you record tobacco and alcohol use in personal history? | 45 (72.60%) |
29 (76.30%) |
132 (84.60%) |
16 (100%) |
6 (85.70%) |
46 (86.80%) |
| Do you practice complete oral cavity examination besides palpating lymph nodes routinely? | 35 (56.50%) |
18 (47.40%) |
123 (78.80%) |
9 (56.30%) |
3 (42.90%) |
23 (43.40%) |
| Do you take biopsy in patients with suspicious lesions? | 25 (40.30%) |
15 (39.50%) |
79 (50.60%) |
10 (62.50%) |
5 (71.40%) |
34 (64.20%) |