Cancer of the oral mucosa

The tumor can develop on the mucous membrane of the cheeks, alveolar bone, soft and hard palate. The first sign is more often the appearance on the mucous growth of epithelium in the form of a brush, warts; Sometimes redness in a certain place, where then erosion occurs - a mucosal defect, and then an ulcer. When probing the area around it, the compaction of the tissue is determined. Relatively early cancer cells spread to nearby lymph nodes in surrounding tissues, including in the tissue of the upper or lower jaw.
Special attention deserves leukoplakia - a lesion of the mucous membrane, which can suddenly disappear, and then reappear as a whitish patch located on the mucous cheeks, more often along the closing of the molar teeth. Leukoplakia is a section of keratinization and slusheniya epithelium of the mucosa and arises from the constant irritation of it: when closing teeth, trauma prosthesis, smoking. Experience shows that the removal of these factors leads to the disappearance of the disease, the resumption - to its relapse. This is especially evident in people who smoke, when refusing a bad habit almost always removes them from leukoplakia, and a return to tobacco - to its repetition.