Overview

Oral medicine is a branch of dentistry placed at the interface between medicine and dentistry.

Oral medicine is concerned with clinical diagnosis and non-surgical management of non-dental pathologies affecting the oral and maxillofacial region. Moreover, it involves the diagnosis and follow-up of pre-malignant lesions of the oral cavity, chronic and acute pain. Another aspect of the field is managing the dental and oral condition of medically compromised patients.

Department Activities

Department of Oral Medicine has three main goals:

A. Education: We provide a basic and advanced education for under and post graduate dentistry students.

B.  Research: we prepare and submit under and post-graduate thesis based on the researches.

C. Treatment: the department of Oral medicine is concerned with clinical diagnosis and non-surgical management of non-dental pathologies affecting the oral and maxillofacial region. Moreover, it involves the diagnosis and follow-up of pre-malignant lesions of the oral cavity, chronic and acute pain. Another aspect of the field is managing the dental and oral condition of medically compromised patients.