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Oral Medicine Scope of Practice

Updated: Apr 26



Just for fun!


I compiled the oral medicine alphabet below, reflecting the scope of practice of an oral medicine specialist through a list of disorders typically seen in oral medicine practices.


A: Aphthous ulcers (canker sores); Actinic cheilitis; Amalgam tattoo


B: Burning mouth syndrome; Behcet’s disease


C: Candidiasis (fungal infection); Crohn’s disease oral lesions


D: Dry mouth; Desquamative gingivitis; Disc displacement disorders of the TMJ


E: Erythema multiforme; Erythroleukoplakia (red/white potentially malignant lesion)

F: Fibroma; Fissured tongue; Fordyce granules


G: Glossopharyngeal neuralgia: Geographic tongue; Graft versus host disease (oral)


H: Halitosis; Hairy leukoplakia; Headache; Herpes zoster (shingles)


I: Indurated lesion


J: Jaw pain; Jaw locking


K: Kaposi sarcoma (oral)


L: Lichen planus; Lichenoid mucositis; Leukoplakia (white potentially malignant lesion)


M: Myofascial pain muscles of mastication (muscle pain); Mucous membrane pemphigoid; Mucocele; Melanoma (rare); Melanotic macule: Melanoacanthoma


N: Neuropathic pain (nerve pain)


O: Oral cancer; Orofacial granulomatosis; Osteoarthritis of TMJ


P: Pemphigus vulgaris; Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia; Pyogenic granuloma


Q: Quarantine (I had to come up with something!)


R: Recurrent herpes labialis (fever blisters); Ranula


S: Sjogren syndrome; Squamous cell carcinoma; Submucous fibrosis; Squamous papilloma (wart): Shingles


T: Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD/TMJ); Trismus (locked jaw); Trigeminal neuralgia; Tobacco pouch keratosis


U: Ulcers


V: Verrucous carcinoma; Verruca vulgaris (wart)


W: White sponge nevus; Wegener’s granulomatosis


X: Xerostomia (dry mouth)


Y: Yellow pseudomembrane (covering layer of canker sores)


Z: Zinc deficiency



© 2021. The Oral Medicine Specialist - Dr. Chizobam Idahosa


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