Exploring the Diverse Spectrum of Lip Lesions: A Comprehensive Study of 50 Patients

Introduction: Lip is a unique type of tissue sharing features of both skin and oral mucosa and act as “barrier” for the mouth and receive an abundance of external irritations and also an area of high aesthetic interest. A wide variety of local and systemic diseases may present as painful exfoliative lips with swelling and erythema. To study various causes and morphology of lip lesions. Lip lesions were selected from Aim: Materials And Methods: patients irrespective of age group and sex who visited hospital over a period of 1 year and were categorised to know cause, location of lip involved, a detailed family and medical history was taken, and the lesions were grouped under the following categories:Infections, Inammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, Drug reactions, premalignant lesions, benign tumours, Geno dermatoses and malignant lesions. Among the lip lesions, the most common were infections, inammatory conditions, autoimmune, vesiculobullous disorders and few drug reactions were seen in which lower lip was the most affected region followed by both lips, corners of mouth and upper lip.