Determinación de cambios celulares en pacientes consumidores de chimó a través del estudio citológico

Abstract

Introduction: Chimo is a soft paste of blackish color coming from the tobacco, which contains nicotine in its composition generating damage in the oral cavity that range from a simple vasoconstriction until the development of pre-malignant lesions that can be converted to long-term oral cancer. This is a descriptive cross-sectional research that aims to determine the cellular changes in the oral mucosa of consumers of chimo. Material and Methods: The study sample consisted of 120 patients consumers of chimo habitants of the Paramo Merideno, to which it took them a cytological sample by the method of scraping for microscopic study, achieving to determine the cytological changes present in the oral mucosa. Results: it was noted that the cellular component in the cytological specimens, affected were found in different levels, and according to the amount consumed and time consuming. Conclusions: the consumption of chimo produces alterations at a cellular level in the oral mucosa; changes that are directly related to the amount consumed daily, allowing to establish once more that the cytology is a useful means of diagnosis, effective, simple; that can be used routinely in the dentist's office in all patients who are considered high-risk for the development of some type of injury that may become a future in a oral cancer.