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Dealing with potentially premalignant oral epithelial lesions (PPOELs)

Hidayah Mohamed AbdulGhafar Elyas

Potentially premalignant oral epithelial lesions (PPOELs) are a group of diseases have the potential for malignant transformation, which should be diagnosed in the early stage. It was divided in to premalignant lesions and premalignant conditions until World Health Organization (WHO) has been changed this name in to oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) in workshop held in 2005.Recently a new term potentially premalignant oral epithelial lesions (PPOELs) has been used as a broad term to define both histologic and clinical lesions that have malignant transformation ability.