[Prevention of oral cancer: practice patterns in a dentists' group]. / Prevenzione del cancro orale: la pratica odontoiatrica in un campione di operatori.

Annually, 3000 people in our country die for oral cancer. Contrarily to other forms of cancer that require the use of instrumental diagnostic tools, the oral cavity is easy to examine and the cancer is usually preceded by precancerous conditions. The problem of the diagnostic delay can be explained through a underestimation of the lesions of the oral cavity by patients and a lack of sensibilization to prevention topics from dentists. Our work has inquired in the activity of a group of dentist with more than ten years than experience on accuracy of the anamnesis, objective exam and appropriate of the resource to specialists, and that with the aim not to measure the clinical abilities but to estimate the attitude towards the Prevention topics, in special way in the field of the malignant tumors of the oral cavity.