Background :Oral cavity and jaw lesions,include a wide variety of lesions including both benign and malignant lesions.Tobacco chewing, ill fitting dentures, cigarette smoking are the predisposing factors. These lesions potentially endanger health of the individual. We have undertaken this study to correlate histopathological changes with clinical findings.

 Material and methods: This retrospective study was done in Department of Pathology in collaboration with Department of surgery and Dental College. Data from 92 patients with oral cavity and jaw lesions regarding age, site, sex and histopathological diagnosis was retrieved from the request forms of the Departments of Pathology, Slides and blocks were taken from the archives of the Department of Pathology. All the slides were re–evaluated.

Results: A total of 92 cases were included, 58 were male and 34 were female patients.Male pre–dominance was seen with male to female ratio 1.5 to 1. The age range varied from 3 to 74 years. Buccal mucosa was involved in 21 cases (55%) followed by 19 cases in jaw (45%). The commonest tumour was Squamous cell carcinoma with 23 cases followed by 21 cases of capillary hemangioma .

Conclusion:  In conclusion Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common malignant jaw tumour followed by malignant salivary gland tumours.