What is oral medicine?
Oral medicine is the speciality that is concerned with disorders of the soft tissues of the mouth, the salivary glands, and the jawbones. These conditions may be the result of a local or systemic disease or the adverse reaction to a medication.
The specialization of clinical oral medicine is concerned with the diagnosis and conservative therapy of disorders such as the ones stated below:
- Traumatic lesions
- Bacterial infections
- Viral Infections
- Fungal infections
- Aphthous and other ulcers
- Granulomatous disease
- Premalignant lesions
- Cancer of the mouth
- Non Malignant tumors
- Damage from medication
- Oral lesion resulting from systemic disease such as autoimmune diseases.
- Dermatological, blood related diseases and other
Common oral medicine diseases:
- Recurrent apthous ulcers
- Lichen planus
- Dry mouth
- Small tumor like lesions, e.g. papilloma, HPV related tumors
- Bad breath
- White lesions
