Abstract

JIMENEZ, Cecilia. Estudio Clínico - Patológico Retrospectivo de Papiloma de la Mucosa Bucal en una población venezolana . Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2002, vol.40, n.1, pp.31-35. ISSN 0001-6365.

Oral Papilloma is one of the injuries most frequent of the mouth and is produced by the virus of human papilloma. The present work had as an objective to determine the frequency of the oral Papilloma in the population that goes to the Service of Estomatologic Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Central University of Venezuela between July 1988 - 1998. Through clinical histories of patients with presumptive clinical diagnosis of oral papilloma, a histopathologic study was performed to confirm the definitive diagnosis of the lesions. From 250 histories with presumptive diagnosis of oral papilloma, a total of 57 with indicated definitive diagnosis were obtained (59,6%). Female sex (68,42%) is the more affected, the location turned out to be the tongue (31,6%), the ethnic group corresponds with the half-breed (56,1%) and the most frequent age was between the 50 and 59 years old (24,6%). The oral Papilloma is a relatively frequent lesions in the population that goes to the service of the Estomatologic Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Central University of Venezuela, with greater prevalence in the female sex between the third and fifth decade of the life and of frequent location in the tongue and easily confusing Clinically with traumatic fibrosis.

Keywords : Human Papilloma Virus; HPV; Oral Mucosa; Retrospective Clinico- Pathological Study.