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The American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP) has 619 members and 276 fellows. Oral and maxillofacial pathologists are uniquely qualified by training to combine expertise in histo-pathologic diagnosis, clinical diagnosis, and treatment. The majority of oral and maxillofacial patho...
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PMID: 19537477
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Atypical wear and oral lesions were studied in the dental remains from the Middle Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture site Ajvide on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Teeth (n = 764) from 17 males and 11 females were examined microscopically to document unusual wear, assess wear patterns and oral l...
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PMID: 18383160
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of understanding various numeric and alpha-numeric codes for accurately billing dental and medically related services to private pay or third-party insurance carriers. In the United States, common dental terminology (CDT) codes are most comm...
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PMID: 18501731
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This study is the first to detail the scope of practice, lesion occurrence and utilisation of services offered by OMP specialists in Australia. The demand for OMP services is strong....
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PMID: 18410579
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This article presents the approach the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto employed to modernize its methods of instruction by using online technologies. A small team of faculty, students, and content developers was assembled to work with individual faculty members to brainstorm and re...
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PMID: 18451076
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Virtual microscopy has many advantages over real microscopy in oral and maxillofacial pathology education. Furthermore, telepathology could also be applied in other pathological services, such as intraoperative frozen sections, routine surgical pathology, and subspecialty consultation....
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PMID: 17689118
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John Hunter was one of the great surgeons and anatomists of the eighteenth century and one of the greatest comparative anatomists of all time. His legacy was a museum of over 1300 specimens and anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and a wealth...
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PMID: 18578226
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David Farrar Mitchell, DDS, PhD (1918-1975), was a pioneer in aviation dentistry and a leader in dental education, service and research. In the mid-1940's, he was the first dental officer assigned to the School of Aviation Medicine (SAM) in San Antonio, Texas, a unique, Army Air Corps organization f...
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PMID: 19213265
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The School of Dentistry of the University of Otago operates a diagnostic oral pathology service, Medlab Dental, as a joint venture with the private pathology service Medlab South. This report reviews the use of the service in 2005 and provides information on current activities that highlights the im...
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PMID: 17596024
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The system allowed the authors to construct and to manage a pathology database, and to simulate diagnoses using the variables from the database. CONCLUSION: Combining a relational database and an open decision-support system in the same user-friendly environment proved effective in simulating diagno...
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PMID: 17445004
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Over the last decade, online continuing dental education (CDE) has seen a major transformation in the way it is delivered, marketed, and accessed. The University of Florida College of Dentistry (UFCD) developed and evaluated a web-based CDE format ("Case of the Month") that specifically focused on c...
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PMID: 17314388
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Biopsy is the gold standard of diagnostic procedures. The American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology has stated its position concerning biopsy use in dental practice, believing that using the procedure more frequently will enhance diagnosis and contribute substantially to the quest for mor...
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PMID: 17899726
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Oral and maxillofacial pathology (OMP) may be viewed as a specialty of dentistry, which addresses the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the oral and perioral regions. Consensus definitions may be found in the accreditation standards for OMP as published by the American Dental Association, and i...
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PMID: 18335817
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Computerized oral brush biopsy became commercially available in 1999. The objectives of this study were to provide senior dental students with the clinical competency to perform oral brush biopsy and to evaluate the extent to which students used this technique and the outcomes of their biopsy techni...
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PMID: 16896084
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Oral pathology is the specialty area of dentistry that deals with the diagnosis and management of oral diseases and more specifically, diseases other than dental caries, periodontal disease, restorative dentistry, and orthodontic therapy. Oral medicine represents the clinical arm of oral pathology a...
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PMID: 16866014
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It is clear that GDPs have provided an increased number of biopsy specimens over the last three decades. This reflects an increasing demand by GDPs for a diagnostic oral histopathology service and their use of this service should be encouraged....
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PMID: 16703040
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We compared uncorrected and corrected scores on examinations using a multiple-choice format with scores on examinations composed of short-answer questions. The short-answer format eliminated or at least greatly reduced the potential for guessing the correct answer. Agreement of corrected multiple-ch...
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PMID: 16595530
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There has been considerable disagreement among educators on the topics and details of topics that should be included in the teaching of oral pathology to dental students and graduate students in dental specialties. Various authorities have recommended core curricula that range from comprehensive tea...
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PMID: 16595528
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We have profited from the genius of Watson and Crick (DNA); Fleming (penicillin); Venable and Stuck (Chrome-cobalt--molybdenum alloy); Gershkoff and Goldberg (the subperiosteal implant); Chercheve, Branemark, Linkow, Misch, Tatum, and Niznick (innovative root forms, titanium and its alloys, and sinu...
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PMID: 16704105
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Oral developmental, reactive, benign neoplastic and malignant neoplastic conditions, many odontogenic in origin, may not be seen routinely by the general surgical pathologist and therefore may present a diagnostic dilemma. This article describes odontogenic and nonodontogenic conditions with little...
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PMID: 16330930
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We sent anonymous questionnaires to undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental deans, accident and emergency (A&E) doctors, and dentists. We wanted to know if they were capable of diagnosing and treating 10 common oral disorders, and if their training was adequate to enable them to do so. Ten...
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PMID: 15620777
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This project was comparing the accuracy of capturing the oral pathology diagnoses among different coding systems. 55 diagnoses were selected for comparison among 5 coding systems. The results of accuracy in capturing oral diagnoses are: AFIP (96.4%), followed by Read 99 (85.5%), SNOMED 98 (74.5%), I...
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PMID: 16779205
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This paper describes a minimum curriculum in oral pathology for undergraduate dental education in the United Kingdom prepared by the Teachers Group of The British Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. Curricular development in UK dental schools is overseen by the General Dental Council (GDC),...
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PMID: 15469445
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Internet usage for dentistry and medicine is growing. Using search engines available on the Internet, websites for oral pathology and oral medicine information resources are explored and evaluated. A framework, whereby the personal digital assistant is used in conjunction with the Internet to enhanc...
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PMID: 15389308
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These data suggest that the presence of inflammation, lesion site, and biopsy technique modifies the reliability of oral lesion histologic diagnoses....
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PMID: 14720191
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This paper discusses recent advances in electronic information, with particular reference to Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology. Email has become the norm for professional communication; Medline is freely accessible; content alerts can be established to alert the subscriber to new publications; eviden...
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PMID: 14507135
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The increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout Europe to evaluate and control performance. The establishment of criteria for educational quality, a requirement for a successful evaluation, was studied as part of an evaluation of the dental educat...
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PMID: 11975667
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Pathology is a science describing the common regularities of pathological processes underlying disease development. Today pathology is defined as a theoretical science, which is at the same time closely connected to clinical practice. This paper reviews the history of research activities of Laborato...
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PMID: 12532879
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The practice of pathology is currently undergoing significant change, in large part due to advances in the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins in tissues. These advances have permitted improved biologic insights into many developmental, inflammatory, metabolic, infectious, and neoplastic diseases. Mo...
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PMID: 11805778
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I will discuss the biologic fundamentals of DNA, RNA, and proteins and the methods that are currently available or likely to become available to the pathologist in the next several years for their isolation and analysis in tissue biopsies....
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PMID: 11740483
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The records of the Oral Pathology Services of the University College Hospital Ibadan Dental Centre contains data on 2264 biopsies between 1986-1996. There were 561 biopsies on patients aged 1-16 years representing 16.2% of total. Case notes and radiographs (where available) were retrieved and analys...
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PMID: 11372144
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Objectives of hospital-based post-doctoral general dentistry programs in Canada were assessed by questionnaire. Seventy percent (14 of 20) of the program directors responded. Educational goals and objectives were assessed in professional skills and practice management, public health and preventive d...
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PMID: 11203897
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This preliminary study suggests that the clinical evaluation of oral lesions by an oral pathologist appears to be cost-effective and should be an integral part of a comprehensive health management system. These results should be corroborated by similar multicenter studies....
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PMID: 10348517
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