Table 6.
Location distribution among study categories
| Categories | Location distribution | P value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lip | Buccal mucosa | Tongue | Palate | Mouth floor | Gingiva alv.ridge | man | max | ||
| Allergies and immunologic disease |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(1) 100.0% |
(0) 0.0% | 0.915 |
| Bone pathology |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(1) 1.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(2) 2.0% |
(50) 49.5% |
(48) 47.5% |
1.09E−17 |
| Dermatologic diseases, immunologic |
(0) 0.0% |
(2) 100.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% | (0) 0.0% | 1.55E−09 |
| Developmental, non-odontogenic cyst |
(1) 9.1% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(2) 18.2% |
(0) 0.0% |
(1) 9.1% |
(7) 63.6% |
5.49E−06 |
| Epithelial pathology |
(2) 25.0% |
(1) 12.5% |
(3) 37.5% |
(1) 12.5% |
(0) 0.0% |
(1) 12.5% |
(0) 0.0% | (0) 0.0% | 6.32E−11 |
| Odontogenic cysts |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(2) 0.7% |
(157) 51.3% |
(147) 48.0% |
1.13E−81 |
| Odontogenic tumor Benign |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(3) 3.1% |
(63) 64.9% |
(61) 32.0% |
1.68E−19 |
| Periodontal diseases |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(22) 100.0% |
(0) 0.0% | (0) 0.0% | 3.88E−08 |
| Periapical diseases |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(0) 0.0% |
(24) 51.1% |
(23) 48.9% |
4.61E−08 |
| Salivary gland pathology |
(49) 69.0% |
(4) 5.6% |
(0) 0.0% |
(7) 9.9% |
(10) 14.1% |
(0) 0.0% |
(1) 1.4% |
(0) 0.0% | 2.5E−117 |
| Soft tissue tumors |
(29) 6.6% |
(32) 7.2% |
(20) 4.5% |
(22) 5.0% |
(3) 0.7% |
(324) 73.3% |
(6) 1.4% |
(6) 1.4% |
1.8E−167 |
P < 0.05 indicated a statistically significant difference and they are shown in bold