As you can see from my signature, my husband's leukoplakia was initially diagnosed as showing moderate dysplasia (though a fuller excisional biopsy several weeks later found early-stage SCC).

I asked on these boards what that initial diagnosis meant, and here is how Brian responded:

[quote]Dysplasia are those cells which are no longer normal, but they are not really malignant yet...an in-between state, so to speak. Dysplasias also do not always go completely over to the dark side, but they are a step in that direction... and having them removed, or watched very regularly is prudent. Dysplastic leukoplakias can often return after surgical removal, many times done with a laser, sometimes via a blade excision. Keep an eye on things even after the removal from now until forever.[/quote]As for your inability to find any postings about dysplasia, my guess is that you may have inadvertently misspelled dysplasia or didn't make sure that the search included All Open Forums, as I just tried it and got almost 90 hits.

-- Leslie