Efficacy of Sclerotherapy with 3% Sodium Tetradecyl sulphate (STS) in Benign Oral and Peri Oral Vascular Lesion

A congenital lesion known as a vascular malformation usually affects the head, neck, and oral cavity. Vascular malformations are bluish, compressible, and non-pulsatile. Vascular anomalies do not spontaneously disappear and do not present with clinically distinct symptoms. Depending on the type, location, and depth of the lesion as well as the patient’s health, they could be treated with laser therapy, embolization, electrocauterization, steroid administration, surgical removal, or sclerotherapy. Among the many substances used in sclerotherapy, sodium tetradecyl sulfate is known to cause thrombosis and extravascular inflammation, which leads to the ischemic necrosis of blood vessels. Based on the blood vessel that is associated to the lesion, these malformations can be divided into arterial, arteriovenous, venous, capillary, and lymphatic malformations. The majority of the time, an intraoral lesion is asymptomatic, but it never goes away on its own and, if left untreated, can cause bleeding, pain, tissue necrosis, secondary infection, or aesthetic abnormalities. This is a quasi-experimental study performed at oral and maxillofacial surgery department, Bangabandhu sheikh mujib medical university (bsmmu) Dhaka, Bangladesh study population includes patients with oral and perioral vascular benign lesion. study samples consist of patient diagnosed with oral and perioral benign vascular lesions attending outdoor clinic of oral and maxillofacial surgery department, Bangabandhu sheikh mujib medical university, Dhaka, Bangladesh. This study observed the efficacy of Sclerotherapy with 3% sodium tetradecyl sulphate (STS) in the treatment of benign oral and perioral vascular lesions. This study concludes that as an alternative treatment option for managing oral and peri-oral vascular lesions, sclerotherapy with direct intralesional injection of 3 % STS solution is minimally invasive, safe, and effective therapy that can be done in an office procedure. Smaller lesions have a more favorable response with minor complications.