Modern clinical approaches to the treatment of leukoplakia in dental practice

Nurieva Natalia Sergeevna, Ziganshin Oleg Raisovich, Gumiynuk Tatyana Vladimirovna

Background. The pathological process referred to as leukoplakia refers to facultative forms of precancerous diseases of the oral mucosa. Timely diagnosis and choice of treatment method is the prevention of malignancy of the pathological process. Purpose. Evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, taking into account the patient's model, size and localization of leukoplakia. Materials and methods. To ensure the ordering and systematization of clinical and diagnostic information on the studied pathology, the content analysis of domestic and foreign reference, scientific and educational literature sources was performed. The developed treatment algorithm was tested, and the results of treatment at the dentist's clinical appointment were evaluated. Results and discussion. As a result of the study, a convenient and practically acceptable main method of treating leukoplakia of the oral mucosa was developed. A clinical case demonstrating the results of treatment of leukoplakia of the oral mucosa is presented. Conclusion. The method of treatment of leukoplakia of the oral mucosa formed in the course of the study is the most effective in dental practice, which forms professional skills and competencies of practical dentists in routing patients with this pathology at a clinical appointment. The presented clinical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the treatment method in the practice of a dentist. Conflict of interest. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Sponsorship agreementof a research. The research had no sponsorship. Researchers respond full responsibility for providing the manuscript to the final version in the press. Declaration on financial and other relationship. All authors took part in development of the concept and design of a research and in writing of the manuscript. The final version was approved by all authors. Authors did not receive the royalties for a research.

Keywords:leukoplakia, simple leukoplakia, precancer of the oral mucous membrane, keratosis, leukoplakia treatment.