Background: Oral cancer is one of the 10 most common cancers in the world, with delayed clinical detection, poor prognosis, for the disease, and expensive therapeutic alternatives. Oral cancer is a preventable disease, risk factors and natural history is already being known, where biomedical sciences and dentistry, in particular, are likely to improve their poor clinical indicators. Objevtive: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of oral cancer among patients visiting Saveetha Dental College. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out and the case records of patients having oral cancer were collected by reviewing patient records and analyzing the data of 86000 patients from June 2019 to April 2020. Patients diagnosed with oral cancer were selected. The data were collected and subjected to statistical analysis and correlation using SPSS software. Results: In this study, it was found that 82% of the total patients diagnosed with oral cancer were males and 18% of them were females. It was also found that the commonest site involved was the buccal mucosa (31%). The findings of this study revealed that oral cancer is more prevalent among males and that the commonest site involved is the buccal mucosa. Conclusion: From this study it is concluded that the prevalence of oral cancer is more among males and according to the site involved, it__ampersandsignrsquo;s more commonly involved in buccal mucosa when compared to other sites.