This is the first department visited by the patients for their main concern and routed to required department for the further management.In this department detailed history with examination of the patient is done and various screening procedures and chairside investigations are carried out to rule out premalignant and malignant lesions and also habbit couselling for patients who are smokers, gutka chewers and preventive oral health care for patients requiring treatment for oral cancer is done here. In oral radiology department diagnostic radiographs are taken which includes intraoral and extraoral radiographs.
Teaching Methods
Didactic Lectures: Theory Classes
Clinical discussions
Chairside discussions and demonstrations
Radiographic interpretation and discussion
TREATMENT RENDERED
Clinical and radiological examination of the patients
Habit couselling of the patients
Biopsy
Tooth vitality test
Medical management of tobacco induced oral lesions, orofacial pain, salivary gland disorders,tempromandibular joint disorders,immune – mediated oral mucosal lesions and other oral mucosal pathologies.