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
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