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'...

The collection of saliva is a safe, non-invasive and simple method compared to the collection of blood.5 It can be collected without much patient discomfort, and the advantage over other fluids, such...

A 60-year-old male farmer reported to our department with the chief complaint of a growth in the posterior region of the left maxillary residual alveolar ridge of 1½ years' duration. The growth...