Introduction India the land of Chewing tobacco is also the land of Oral Cancer. India ranks the highest in the World in terms of both incidence and prevalence of Oral Cancers and more than that we have the highest number of people harboring premalignant lesions in the mouth potential to turn malignant. Fortunately, oral cancers are easily detectable, easily curable, and more importantly easily preventable.
But tragically most of the patients reach the health care facility in late-stage with dismal anatomical, functional, and life expectancy outcome. April is designated as the oral cancer awareness month with a purpose to make all out efforts to reach out to public, physicians, surgeons and dental specialists so that they incorporate the knowledge in their practice which will make a huge difference in the incidence as well as outcome for these patients. Further, the common problem of…
