Oral Medicine I

Catalog description

This course provides students with the instruction and skills necessary to provide complete dental care from assessment through treatment, for patients with urgent and emergent oral health issues; chronic or acute orofacial pain; neurosensory, chemosensory or movement disorders; or oral problems caused by treatment of cancer. The course will provide students with the foundational knowledge to diagnose the common disorders of orofacial region by clinical examination and the use of adjunctive assessments as may be required, and the medical management of orofacial disorders, including the need for referral. The course will consist of classroom lectures, case-based small group sessions, and a biopsy workshop using pig jaws, where students will learn the appropriate biopsy techniques, such as brush biopsy, incisional and excisional biopsy.