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The term #Leukoplakia simply means a “white patch”, and it has been used in a sense to describe any white lesion in the mouth. This non-specific usage led to confusion among physician, #surgeons and researchers who attributed a precancerous nature to many innocuous #lesions. Some investigators tried, although unsuccessfully, to restrict this term only to those white lesions that histologically indicated epithelial #dysplasia. Since the mid-1960s there has been a considerable understanding and clarification in the concept of leukoplakia, and now leukoplakia is recognized as a specific entity.

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