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. 1994 Jul;87(7):390-2.
doi: 10.1177/014107689408700706.

The oral medicine clinic--what is its role?

J M Zakrzewska  1 , C Downer, V Lopes
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The oral medicine clinic--what is its role?

J M Zakrzewska et al. J R Soc Med. 1994 Jul.

Abstract

The total number of new patients seen over a period of 12 months in an oral medicine department was 963. Of these 587 were seen by an oral physician, 168 by a liaison psychiatrist, 137 by an oral immunologist and 71 by a dermatologist with a special interest in diseases of the mouth. The broad categories of disease seen were: 364 with orofacial pain of non-dental origin; 263 with benign diseases of the oral mucosa; 149 with potentially malignant lesions, six with frank carcinomas; 100 with oral manifestations of a systemic disease; and 81 patients with conditions considered to be normal.

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