Indagine sui livelli di conoscenza del carcinoma orale: risultati della seconda somministrazione di un questionario.

A test on clinical, epidemiologica and etiological aspects of oral cancer has been submitted for the second time to a group of graduates in dentistry and dental prosthesis at the time of their qualifying examination, in order to value the degree of their knowledge about the most serious stomatological pathology. The results, compared to those ones of the first test-submission, and the following considerations are here exposed. A fairly good knowledge on oral cancer has been noticed in most of the interviewed, as well as in 1989. In particular, a good degree of knowledge on etiologica factors, therapeutic programs and prognosis has been remarked while gaps and incongruousness on precancerous lesions, staging, epidemiological and diagnostic aspects have been found. The authors, at last, lay stress on the difference between the present answers on oral cancer diagnostic delay and those ones of 1989.