MEDICAL AID
ACQUIRING BENEFITS FOR YOUR PROCEDURE FROM YOUR MEDICAL AID.
Once you have received your referral letter from your dentist/ medical practitioner, bring all your X- rays and referral letter to our practice, during office hours, and a provisional estimation/quotation will be performed, for you to submit to your medical aid for approval of your procedure. If you don’t have X- rays, X- rays will be performed when you bring in your referral letter. A small administered tariff of R100-00 will be charged for all the administration involved in compiling a quote and to send the quotation to you.
This estimation/quotation is only to speed up your approval from your medical aid, and a formal consultation will in all circumstances apply, at which your estimation / quotation can be changed.
Association & Partners:
Tumor Surgery
Benign Tumor
Usually a slow-growing lesion without adherence to adjacent structures, and without ulceration and rolled edges. These features are not necessarily an indication of a benign lesion, and a biopsy should always be performed.
Malignant Lesions
Fast-growing with center ulceration and affecting adjacent structures. Bleeding with rolled edges and the presence of fixed regional lymph nodes. in cases of palpable lymph nodes, cancer has already reached an advanced stage.
Pre Malignant Lesions
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Present as a white lesion on the oral mucosa.
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Resulting from chronic heavy smoking
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Some chronic systemic diseases eg. Lichen Planus, Lupus, etc.
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It is recognized today that cigarette smoking is the main and sometimes only cause of mouth, throat and lung cancer. smoking of more than 10 cigarettes a day can cause cancer.
Treatment Plan
Visit your dentist every 6 months. Any suspicious lesion must be evaluated and if in doubt, a biopsy will be performed.