PROPOSED CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF OSMF DEPENDING ON REVIEW OF DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS (1966 ? 2015)

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is an insidious chronic scarring disease of the oral cavity and occasionally affects the pharynx. Knowing the clinical and histopathological features of OSMF helps the patients in giving the better prognosis. As there are several classifications published in the literature based on the clinical and histopathological features, here we have taken a chance to put all the classifications under one roof which would be easy for the post graduates, clinicians, surgeons and pathologists in revising this lesion. We had even attempted a newer classification for OSMF which is the mixture of the other classifications and is important as it would give the gist of all other classifications published in the literature.