Oral Wound Healing: A Scoping Review and Proposal of a New Index for Palatal Mucosa

Overview

Journal J Maxillofac Oral Surg

Date 2024 Apr 11

PMID 38601226

Authors

R Manikandan

P Anantanarayan

Divya Nirmal Kumar

Keerthana Ponvel

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Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this scoping review was to evaluate the wound healing indices available in literature and propose a new intra-oral wound healing index to assess the healing of palatal mucosa.

Materials And Methods: A PubMed database search was conducted to identify relevant studies using the search strategy: ('Oral Wound healing') OR ('Palatal tissue healing') OR ('Healing indices in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery') OR ('Palatal wound healing') OR ('Complications in wound healing'). A qualitative and quantitative synthesis of the results was done and data was presented following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines.

Results: The search resulted in 9 articles published between 2019 and 2022, which were eligible for inclusion in the study. The data revealed that the indices currently available for the assessment of intra-oral healing were limited and primarily concerned with the assessment of gingival and periodontal tissues.

Conclusion: The healing indices devised for gingival and periodontal tissues cannot be applied to palatal healing due to the differences in clinical and histological aspects. Therefore, a new index to monitor the healing response specifically for the soft tissues in the palate has been proposed. This maybe particularly useful in cleft palate repair and other procedures performed over the palatal tissues.

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