Diagnosis and Management of Intraoral Epithelial Dysplasia

It is presumed that the vast majority of cancers develop from a pre-cancerous or dysplastic state. Thus, understanding dysplasia at a clinical and molecular level is critical to our ability to decrease the overall incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. For multiple reasons, our current appreciation of dysplasia is limited; this chapter describes clinical detection and treatment with a special emphasis on future directions.