ORAL HEALTH, Oral Medicine
Bell’s palsy is an acute paralysis on one side of the face involving facial nerve. Facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve that innervates all muscles of facial expression
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The oral mucosa can take up a variety of discolorations, including brown, blue, gray and black. Such color changes are often attributed to the deposition, production, or increased accumulation of various exogenous (extrinsic) and endogenous (intrinsic) pigmented substances.
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Oral mucositis is inflammation of the oral mucosa resulting from chemotherapy or radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer.
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What is HIV? ‘HIV’ stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is the virus that attacks the immune systems, the body’s natural defense system. HIV attacks and destroys a type of white cell called a CD4 cell or T-cell. This cell’s main function is to fight diseases. When a person’s CD4 cell …
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Mucocele is one of the causes of a swelling in your mouth. It is a common lesion of the oral mucosa characterized by single or multiple, spherical, fluctuant nodules which are generally asymptomatic.
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Leukoplakia was defined as a white patch or plaque that cannot be characterized clinically or pathologically as any other specific disease
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Atypical Facial Pain refers to pain over the cranio-facial region that does not fit the classical presentation of other types of facial pain.
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It is commonly recognised as irradiated bone which becomes devitalised/dead and exposed through the overlying skin or mucosa without healing for 3 months in the absence of tumour recurrence.
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Herpes, though is NOT life-threatening, it can be life-changing. It is important to know about HSV; the risk factors that can lead to the viral infection, how to prevent it from spreading and recurring in infected person.
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Temporomandibular joint disorder is a general term to describe several conditions of pain and dysfunction of the chewing muscles and the temporomandibular joints (the joints which connect the jaw to the skull).
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