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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults

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Published on: February 2, 2020

Variable oral device for measuring oral lesions.

Toshinori Iwai¹, Jiro Maegawa², Yoshiro Matsui³

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004 Japan.

Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery : Official Publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India

|February 18, 2014

Summary

A novel variable oral device allows for efficient measurement of oral lesions. This tool aids in the accurate assessment and tracking of oral conditions.

Keywords:

Measurement Oral lesion Variable oral device

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Area of Science:

Oral medicine
Biomedical engineering

Background:

Accurate measurement of oral lesions is crucial for diagnosis and treatment monitoring.
Existing methods for oral lesion measurement can be inefficient or lack precision.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and evaluate a novel variable oral device.
To demonstrate the device's efficiency in measuring oral lesions.

Main Methods:

Development of a custom variable oral device.
Testing the device's performance in measuring various oral lesion types.
Comparison of measurement efficiency and accuracy with standard methods.

Main Results:

The variable oral device provides efficient and accurate measurements of oral lesions.
The device demonstrated superior performance compared to traditional measurement techniques.

Conclusions:

The variable oral device represents a significant advancement in the assessment of oral lesions.
This tool has the potential to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes in oral medicine.