1. Differential Diagnosis of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases for the Non- Dental Provider

2. U.S. Public Health Service

4. John A. Logan College

6. Objectives  1.Ask correct questions and utilize the history of the patient’s oral disease process as the first step in gathering information.  2.Learn to evaluate characteristic appearances of oral lesions during the clinical examination.  3.Narrow the list of diagnostic possibilities in order to prioritize patients for referral.

7. Non-Objectives No specific diagnosis

8. Physiologic pigmentation

10. Physiologic Pigmentation

14. Call the Call the Coroner!

15. linea alba

16. Post-inflammatory Pigmentation

17. Amalgam Tattoo

19. Fordyce Granules

21. Fissured Tongue extensive grooves and fissures over the entire dorsal surface

22. Burning Mouth Syndrome

23. Burning Mouth

24. Treatment

25. Geographic Tongue

26. erythema migrans, ectopic geographic tongue benign migratory glossitis

27. Geographic Tongue

29. Treatment  dexamethasone  diphenhydramine

30. stomatitis

31. Median Rhomboid Glossitis

33. Median Rhomboid Glossitis Treatment 1.antifungal therapy 2.topical corticosteroids 3.neuropathic pain analgesics

34. Median Rhomboid Glossitis

36. Angular Cheilitis

38. Traumatic Ulceration

40. Tori

41. Maxillary Torus

44. Mandibular Tori

46. Exostoses

47. attrition

48. Abrasion

49. Toothbrush Abrasion

50. Erosion

51. Caries

52. Chronic Hyperplastic Pulpitis

53. Periodontal disease

54. Fibroma

55. Fibroma

56. Fibroma

57. Inflammatory Papillary Hyperplasia

60. Denture care

61. Hemangioma

62. Hemangioma (compressed)

63. Lipoma

64. Mucocele

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