Oral Health is an integral part of total health and oral health care professional must adapt to demographic changes and medical advantages and shoulder responsibility of being part of patients overall health care team.
Oral medicine is a specialty within dentistry that focuses on the diagnosis and management of complex diagnostic and medical disorders affecting mouth & Jaws. Clinician with advanced training in this discipline manages oral mucosal disease; salivary glands disorder & Facial pain syndromes & also provide dental care for patient with complicating medical disease. Toluidine blue stinging & Cytological smears regularly done as adjunct procedures to biopsy in the department for diagnosis and follow-uip of oral mucosal lesions. The department also has advanced intraoral cemera for motivation of patient & follows up of oral mucosal lesions.
Oral and Maxillofacial radiology is specialty of dentistry & Discipline of radiology concerned with the production & interpretation of images & data produce by all modalities of radiating energy that are used for diagnosis & management of diseases, disorders & conditions of the oral & Maxillofacials region. Intra oral & extra oral radiography like panoramic radiography and lateral cephalogram are done in the department in the department the department also has general radiography machine for imaging of whole body also. Direct intra-oral digital imaging is also regularly done in department advanced imaging modalities like CT, MRI & Ultrasound are regularly advised. |