ORAL MEDICINE/ORAL PATHOLOGY/ORAL PAIN
Medical conditions of the mouth, face and jaws

Our oral & maxillofacial surgeons are dual medical & dental specialists.  By their extensive training, they have a thorough knowledge of systemic conditions affecting the whole body, and how they may be causing local disease in the mouth, jaws and face. 

Diagnostic medicine is like a giant recipe book. Once of course you have a precise diagnosis, your specialist doctor is able to access special treatments and  tailor them specifically to your personal needs and circumstances. In most cases, such treatments also have specialist Medicare and insurance subsidies, which are unavailable to general medical or dental practitioners.

If you are unwell, and have found it difficult to find a cause or treatment for your mouth, face or jaw condition, then seeking specialist practitioners from the broadest professional backgrounds will obviously help.

Oral & Maxillofacial surgeons, trained in both medicine and dentistry (and working alongside your GP or general dentist), offer the broadest and most comprehesive diagnostic and treatment range for conditions of the mouth, face and jaws.

Please browse through the following areas of interest, and click to link to investigate a particular subject heading. ith

Oral Medicine

  1. White lesions
  2. Oral ulceration
  3. Mucosal disorders
  4. Xerostomia (dry mouth)
  5. Chronic medical conditons with manifestations in the mouth and jaws
  6. Chronic medical conditions affected by the mouth and jaws
  7. Chronic medical conditions complicating simple dental treatment
  8. Medications that affect the mouth and jaws

Oral Pathology

  1. Benign tumours of the jaws
  2. Malignant tumours of the jaws
  3. Tori
  4. White lesions of the mucous membranes
  5. Mucosal lesions
  6. Oral cancer
  7. Skeletal developmental disorders
  8. Jaw, face and neck infections
  9. Periodontal disease
  10. Caries disease of teeth

 

 

Oral Pain background he treats the whole person, ra

  1. Dental pain
  2. Chronic facial pain
  3. TMJ and myofacial pain
  4. Medications in chronic pain management

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n treating the patient as a “mouth”.