Effectiveness of Identafi® in Evaluation of Precancerous Oral Lesions.
Oral cancers; It is a type of cancer that has been diagnosed with lesions in areas such as the floor of the mouth (under the tongue), lips, gums, tongue, inner faces of cheeks, palate. Its Mortality rate has increased significantly in recent years.
Identafi® is an feasible, ancillary, veiling equipment aspecting three distinct flashes that are practiced subsequently to explore oral ornaments.
In addition to a flash transmitting diode (light-emitting diode (LED)) white flash, the equipment also contains violet flash of 405 nm wavelength and a 545 nm wavelength green-amber flash. The violet and green-amber flashes activate ornament fluorescence and reflectance spectroscopy variously.
Looking at the early diagnosis statistics of oral cancer,
it is seen that it creates serious differences in terms of survival.
Although there is a great responsibility for doctors in early diagnosis, some problems that vary from patient to patient can make
early diagnosis difficult.
Based on these problems, we conducted this study, which examined the role of the Identafi® device in early
diagnosis, on cases we observed suspicious on cases in Eskişehir
and encountered remarkable results.
The aim of this study is to provide early diagnosis of precancerous oral lesions in the mouth and to determine how it will affect the prognosis in early diagnosis by testing the Identafi® device that will
help the physician for this purpose.
The present study included the patients whom applied to Otorhinolaryngology Department of Yunus Emre Goverment Hospital
and City Hospital of Eskişehir between 2011-2019.
This device is designed for light; it uses the energy it broadcasts at different wavelengths by combining it with different reflection feature between malignant and bening tissue.
Otolaryngol Open J. 2020; 6(1): 8-10. doi: 10.17140/OTLOJ-6-161
