Evaluating Hearing Impairment in Different Histopathological Grades of Oral Submucous Fibrosis: An Audiometric Analysis.

Cureus · 2026 · PMC12862875 · PMID 41635320

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found a linear progression of hearing loss with increasing OSMF severity [ 3 ], whereas our findings did not reach statistical significance across histopathological grades.

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