8 percent of tumors affect "the mouth and tongue"

A consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah, Dr. Bassem Tariq Saleh Jamal, revealed that oral tumors in the Kingdom are ranked third out of all other tumors, while they are ranked 12 in Western countries, and he said during the Third International Conference of the College of Dentistry that it hosts King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Hilton Hotel, in the presence of 500 doctors and doctors, that the increase in the percentage is due to the high rate of smoking in the community, as studies have shown that smoking is closely related to tumors in general, and the head, neck and lung in particular, indicating that these surgeries include correction of facial fractures and orthodontic surgeries Maxillofacial deformity, jaw joint surgeries, tumor excision, post-resection reconstruction, correction of congenital anomalies, such as cleft palate and palate cleft surgeries, and dental surgery.

He referred to the increasing percentage of jaw deformities in the Kingdom, and that an increase or decrease in the size of the jaws or one of them leads to difficulty in conforming the teeth and performing the normal function of the jaw, and added Dr. Basim that head and neck tumor surgeries require not only the removal of the tumor, but the removal of the lymph nodes in the neck in which these cells are spread, and the doctors participating in the fourth session confirmed that about 8 percent of all types of cancer are located in the mouth and tongue, and most of them are preventable and can be completely cured if treated early. .

And they said: The mouth is a common place for polyps, the most famous of which is fibroma, which occurs due to chronic irritation and often arises from tooth friction with the thin tissues in the mouth. Viruses are the ones that cause it. Doctors stressed that cancerous mouth tumors are often associated with tobacco use, which increases the risk of exposure to oral cancer, or the combination of tobacco and alcohol, which increases the risk of oral cancer and oral cancer begins in the form of a sore that does not heal or a white patch that often accompanies it Red areas or a bump, and they said: Early diagnosis is the key to success, and surgical excision is the most common form of treatment, and radiotherapy may be used to kill the remaining cancer cells, and chemotherapy is useful if the doctor believes that the tumor has spread to other parts of the body.