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The clinician is advised to ask the patient about use of betel nut/slaked lime use versus true smokeless tobacco products. Betel nut/slaked lime keratosis is premalignant, whereas other true tobacco-containing, topical smokeless tobacco products are not. Additionally, clinicians should also consider epithelial dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, invasive squamous cell carcinoma, and even lichen planus and hypertrophic candidiasis.