Resumo

LEMOS JUNIOR, Celso Augusto; ALVES, Fábio de Abreu; PEREIRA, Cassius Carvalho Torres  e  BIAZEVIC, Maria Gabriela Haye. Oral cancer based on scientific evidences. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. [online]. 2013, vol.67, n.3, pp. 178-186. ISSN 0004-5276.

Although the advances in the oral cancer knowledge, several issues have to be addressed for a better understood of this disease. Convictions of the past have been replaced by new scientific evidences. Oral cancer affects annually more than 275.000 people worldwide and more than 14.100 cases in Brazil, 90% of these are squamous cell carcinoma; the mortality rate remains the same for many decades. Their clinical characteristics are well known, but despite this, the number of patients with late diagnosis remains high. Cell biology had a great advance in the last years and a precise marker is still a dream. Biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosis of oral cancer in spite of studies with other techniques. The dental treatment of oncologic patients will be more common and the dentist should be prepared to diagnose and manage these patients.

Palavras-chave : mouth neoplasms; cell biology; diagnosis; oral.