The Nurse Is Doing an Oral Assessment on a 40-Year-Old

The nurse is doing an oral assessment on a 40-year-old African-American patient and notices the presence of a 1-cm,nontender,grayish-white lesion on the left buccal mucosa.Which of these statements is true concerning this lesion?

A) This lesion is leukoedema and is common in darkly pigmented persons.
B) This is the result of hyperpigmentation and is normal.
C) This is torus palatinus and would normally only be found in smokers.
D) This type of lesion is indicative of cancer and should be tested immediately.