The cause of cancer in most people is still unknown but risk depends on a combination of genes, environment and aspects of our lives (Article 1). It is impossible to control some mouth cancer risk...

Alcohol is a depressant. A small amount depresses anxiety and inhibitions and can make the user feel sociable and talkative; too much and a hangover may result, and the person may not even remember...

BCC is the most common type of skin cancer on the sun-exposed areas of face, head and neck. It accounts for about 75% of non-melanoma skin cancers.1,2 BCC presents as an epidermal neoplasm; a...

TMD may affect up to a third of the population, however, the majority of patients do not seek help for their symptoms.1 The prevalence of pain-related TMD is seen to be higher in females,3,4 however,...

A diagnosis of recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is usually reached following a thorough clinical history (Table 1), together with the physical appearance of the ulcer, if present at the time of...

In early 2011, a 53-year-old female patient with a 3-week history of oral ulceration was referred to Oral Medicine from Haematology at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital. There was no history of...

The cause of cancer in most people is unclear but risk depends on a combination of genes, environment and aspects of living (Figure 2)..

Oral and oropharyngeal cancers together are the sixth leading cancer in the world, with a wide geographical variation, although two-thirds of the cases occur in resource-poor countries, such as...

The word tumour in Latin means a swelling but a tumour or swelling is not always a cancer. Some tumours may be caused by inflammation, infections, cysts or fluid-filled lesions or be due to new...

Occurrence of a LGO can indicate many conditions, both local and systemic, ranging from regular hyperplastic reactive lesions1 to atypical metastatic neoplasms.2 A non-specific term ‘epulis’...

Most dermatological diagnoses, just like most dental ones, are not fatal and, in general, treatment for skin disease is symptomatic, and based on the ‘here and now’.

‘Although this is something often deemed controversial, poorer health outcomes, decreased comprehension of diagnoses and reduced satisfaction with care are all associated with limited English...

There are a number of viruses that may produce a subclinical or an overt infection of the peri-oral, oral, and oropharyngeal region, the most common being a group belonging to the Herpesvirida and the...

Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder, affecting both children and adults, and its prevalence is reported to be 1 in 900. Dystonia can affect different parts of the body and is named...

A 79-year-old female was seen in an emergency ophthalmology clinic presenting with sudden complete visual loss in the left eye in addition to a history of a generalized ongoing headache of two weeks'...