Introduction:

Cancer constitutes one of the fatal first causes in the developed world, it includes multiple factors and these malignant diseases occupy the large-number attention of worldwide investigators.

Objective:

To identify the scientific available evidence on the stomatological attention to the patient with oral cancer.

Methods:

A review of the literature was carried out, and a combination of terms and Boolean operators were used in search engines such as The electronic databases PubMed, Medline, Cochrane, Hinari, and SciELO. For the information search the keywords used were dentistry attention, oral cancer, need for dentistry treatment, head and neck cancer, treatment of oral cancer, and radiation therapy.

Results:

It is transcendental that the general or specialist dentists have comprehensive training in the handling of the patient with cancer, to identify previous to the start of the oncological treatment, those clinical stages of risk that can complicate to future, using a clinical and radiographic exhaustive evaluation, besides, using constants inter-consultations with the attending physician, to point the way to the type of treatment to choose, as to accomplish it and the moment of bigger certainty to proceed with the same, as well as, the limitations and complications that can come from accomplishing or not said treatment.

Conclusions:

Oral cancer at present is the center of attention at the international level, a problem that hardly exonerates someplace on the planet; its incidence is appalling. The scientific-technological advances in their treatment are the possible solution for this disease with a valuable percentage of survival, but the side effects that they generate cannot be discarded during and after the treatments, for the ones that dentists should be ready to embrace measures of prevention, diagnosis, therapeutics, and follow-up of these complications.

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