Oral soft tissue malignancies in Ibadan, Nigeria

Eighty-nine primary malignant neoplasms of the oral and oro-pharyngeal tissues excluding bone and salivary gland tissue were studied over a period of 21 years. They constituted 0.4% of the total number of neoplasms seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over that period and contribute only a small proportion, in contrast to the widely held view that oral tumours are very common in Africa