ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SALIVARY PARAMETERS AND ORAL MUCOSA LESIONS AMONG SIAMESE POPULATION IN KELANTAN, MALAYSIA

Saliva is natural body fluid continuously bathing oral mucosa and itssurrounding structure. However, not many studies focusing on changes insalivary parameters and their association with present of oral mucosallesions. This study was conducted to assess the association betweensalivary parameters characteristic and present of oral mucosa lesionamong Siamese population in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.A cross-sectionalstudy was carried out at fourteen randomly selected Siamese villageslocated in six districts of Kelantan. A total of 152 respondents' who fulfillinclusion and exclusion criteria was selected using systematic randomsampling. Saliva collection procedure and analysis was done usingSaliva-Check BUFFER by GIC Co. Japan. Intraoral examination wasdone by single examiner, using WHO (1997) guidelines. Data wereentered and analyzed using SPSS version 13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago,USA).