Oral Pathology in Clinical Dentistry: A systematic approach

Subramanyam, RV

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“…Dentists and oral health therapists are often the first point of contact when orofacial pathology is suspected. Having knowledge of oral pathology, dental clinicians can become involved in diagnosing pathology such as the precursor lesions of oral carcinoma (Subramanyam, 2014). Oral health therapists may refer patients to dentists, who may undertake procedures such as a biopsy, or may order diagnostic tests which would be processed by medical laboratory scientists.…”

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Working together in clinical pathology: An interprofessional education initiative for dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science teachers and students

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Ronayne²,

Anakin³

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Introduction. In the health professional education literature, there is a need for information about the teaching and learning of medical laboratory sciences for clinical practice. The goal of this reflection-on-practice is to describe how an orofacial pathology interprofessional education (IPE) initiative was designed and implemented. Innovation. The designers of this initiative were teachers from dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science. The designers used six interprofessional competences (patient-centred care, role clarification, team functioning, collaborative leadership, communication, and cultural practice) to guide their construction of teaching and learning resources. The initiative required students to work collaboratively with a given patient case to develop a differential diagnosis, prepare a treatment plan, present their case to classmates and staff members, and describe how they worked together to address the orofacial pathology in their case. Evaluation. The designers collected and considered evaluation information including the learning resources used, logistical arrangements for the initiative, and student ratings about interprofessional competencies. Outcomes. In general, the designers felt that they had successfully designed and implemented an IPE initiative that met five of the six interprofessional competencies. The designers did not feel that the cultural practice competency was adequately addressed in this version of the initiative. What next? Given the acceptability of this initiative to the designers, facilitators, and students, the next step is to consider the feasibility of scaling-up this small voluntary IPE initiative into a permanent component of the dentistry,

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Working together in clinical pathology: An interprofessional education initiative for dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science teachers and students

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Anakin³

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“…3,4 A thorough oral lesion description must include the following nine items: size (length, width, and height), number (single, multiple), outline (regular, irregular), surface (smooth, granular, verrucous, papillomatous, pebbly, cobblestone), base (pedunculated, sessile, nodular, domeshaped), site (mucosal, intra-bony, dental), color (red, pink, white, red-white combined, blue, purple, gray, yellow, black, or brown according to their prevalence in oral mucosa), consistency (soft, hard, cheesy, firm, rubbery, and fluctuant), origin (acquired, non-acquired), and morphology or clinical appearance (primary lesions, secondary lesions). 2,[5][6][7] The morphology component is the most challenging aspect of lesion description, which is the main purpose of this review. Study by Zimmermann and colleagues demonstrated that, when lesions have been described based on a guideline and standard definitions in medicine referrals, information quality was higher compared to cases based on a free.…”

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Oral Lesion Description: A Mini Review

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Introduction: Lesion description has a key role in correct diagnosis and timely treatment. The aim of this study was to review of morphological descriptive terms, which are used in oral lesion description. Methods: An electronic search of the literature was conducted in various database including: Google Scholar, PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Direct, and Scopus databases, for relevant articles using the following keywords: "oral lesion", "terminology", "semiology", "glossary", "morphology", "primary lesion", "basic lesion", "dermatology" ,"oral medicine", and "stomatology". About 60 articles were found; out of which, 45 were relevant to our topic of interest. Finally, we included 22 articles that were closely related to the topic of interest. In addition, 4 text books were also used in this study. Results: After data collection, the following 20 descriptive morphological terms were found. These terms divided into two groups as primary and secondary lesions: (1) Primary lesion: macule, patch, papule, plaque, nodule, tumor, weal (or hive), vesicle, bullae, pustule, abscess, cyst, purpura (petechia & ecchymosis), and hematoma. (2) Secondary lesion: erosion, ulcer, sinus, fistula, and scar. Conclusions: The correct and updated descriptive terminology should be considered by dentists in oral examination.

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CONSULTANCY IN ORAL PATHOLOGY: CURRENT SCENARIO & FUTURE SCOPE IN INDIA- A Survey Based Study

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BACKGROUND- Department of Oral Pathology provides a routine diagnostic pathology service for their associated dental hospitals and a specialist referral service for general histopathologists who may be confronted with unfamiliar lesions in the head ,neck and face regions.Despite literature that have stressed the importance of oral pathology services, there is not much published data on the use of such services by general histopathologists. AIM- The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which individual general histopathologists and other medical professionals are aware of oral pathology as a specialist discipline and whether they perceive a need for, and use of, oral pathology services, to identify lesions of the dental and orofacial tissues which pose diagnostic difficulties. METHODS: A survey-based study was conducted from December 2014 to March 2015. A questionnaire was prepared which was sent to consultant micropathologists in institutes in Navi Mumbai .All the collected data was then tabulated and statistically analyzed. RESULTS: In total, 276 (73%) consultant histopathologists completely filled the questionnaire out of 352, of whom 77% (69/89) were aware of the speciality and 23% (7/30) perceived a need for it,but only23% (7/30) of the consultants refer to oral pathologists. CONCLUSION: General histopathologists are less aware of the services provided by oral pathologists. Thus, there is a need to create awareness of oral pathology services through educational activities of various Associations and reframing the graduate and postgraduate programmes. Key Words: oral pathology, general histopathology, survey, scope, consultancy, speciality.

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Oral Pathology in Clinical Dentistry: A systematic approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Working together in clinical pathology: An interprofessional education initiative for dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science teachers and students

Working together in clinical pathology: An interprofessional education initiative for dentistry, oral health, and medical laboratory science teachers and students

Oral Lesion Description: A Mini Review

CONSULTANCY IN ORAL PATHOLOGY: CURRENT SCENARIO & FUTURE SCOPE IN INDIA- A Survey Based Study

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