OMED 324 - Oral Medicine

Bachelor of Oral and Dental Surgery Program:

Department of Biological and Diagnostic Sciences Department offering the course:
Division of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology
3rd / Spring Level / Semester:

A- Basic Information

Oral Medicine Course Title:

OMED 324 Course Code:
ORBL 224; Corequisite: OPTH 322 Prerequisite:
Practical / Clinical: 1 Lecture: 2 2 Credit Hours:
14 Weeks Duration:

B- Professional Information

1- Overall Aims of the Course:

The course allows the students to recognize, diagnose and treat the oral manifestations of
some autoimmune and infectious diseases. Acquire the knowledge, understanding, skills and
attitudes necessary to prevent, diagnose and manage common oral and dental diseases as well
as the effect of chemo/radiotherapy on oral tissues. In addition to dental management for
medically compromised patients including hematologic and bleeding disorders. It allows the
students to recognize, diagnose and treat the oral manifestations of systemic diseases,
including ulcerative, vesiculo-bullous lesions, white and red lesions. The course also covers
the etiology, differential diagnosis and management of orofacial pain.

2- Intended Learning Outcomes of Course (ILOs):

Upon completion of the course, the students should be able to:

a- Knowledge and Understanding:
a1- Identify etiology and pathogenesis of common oral diseases.
a2- Recognize oral diseases due to systemic conditions.
a3-Distinguish commonly occurring oral conditions with relevance to clinical
presentation and diagnosis.
a4- Describe dental management of patients with different systemic diseases.
a5- Recognize hematologic and hemorrhagic disorders and their dental management.
a6- Identify and discuss the etiology and management of orofacial pain.

b- Intellectual Skills:
b1- Distinguish between clinical features of various infectious diseases.
b2- Relate the underlying medical problems that modify the oral condition or the
patient’s ability to tolerate treatment.
b3- Modify treatment plan for medically compromised patients.
b4- Discuss different hematologic and hemorrhagic disorders.
 b5- Implement treatment plan for dental and non-dental pain.

c- Professional and Practical Skills:

c1- Apply knowledge gained to detect abnormal and pathological conditions and risk
factors that may contribute to disease process.
c2- Manage properly patients seeking dental care.
c3- Formulate and implement treatment plans for various oral ulcerations as well as
red and white lesions.
c4- Manage patients with bleeding and clotting disorders including local measures to
control bleeding, and other medications, factor replacement, platelet replacement
and other blood products.

d- General and Transferable Skills:

d1-Demonstrate key skills in retrieval, analysis and interpretation of information
from data collecting.
d2- Work effectively both independent and in a team.
d3- Make effective use of information technology ( web, internet and database).
d4- Solve problems relevant to oral conditions.
d5- Communicate with other physicians/dentists involved in patients care.

3- Course Outline:

Tongue lesions. Week No.1

Diabetes mellitus. Week No.2

Red and white lesions of oral mucosa: Lichen planus, oral candidosis. Week No.3

Platelet disorders. Week No.4

Coagulation disorders. Week No.5

Pigmented lesions of oral mucosa. Week No.6

Dental management of patients treated with radiation and chemotherapy. Week No.7

Infectious diseases: viral infections (Hepatitis, AIDS). Week No.8

Ulcerative, vesicular and bullous lesions part I. Week No.9

Ulcerative, vesicular and bullous lesions: part II. Week No.10

Recurrent oral ulceration. Week No.11

Differential diagnosis of orofacial pain part I. Week No.12

Differential diagnosis of orofacial pain part II. Week No.13

Hematological disorders. Week No.14

Final examination. Week No.15

4- Teaching and Learning Methods:

 4.1- Lectures
 4.2- Assignments / Seminars
 4.3- Practical demonstration (laboratory/clinical)
 4.4- Self-directed learning
 4.5- Case studies
 4.6- Problem solving
 4.7- Team-based learning
4.8- Problem-based learning
4.9- Tutorial

5- Student Assessment Methods, Schedule and Grading:

Weighing of Submission Assess

To assess Type
Assess Week No. No.
Knowledge and Understanding,
Continuous
20% 12th and Intellectual Skills 1
assessment
)quiz(
Knowledge and Understanding,
Continuous
20% up to 12th and Intellectual Skills 2
assessment
)assignment(
All Skills Continuous
20% up to 14th 3
)presentation( assessment
All Skills
20% 14th Final 4
)OSPE(
Knowledge and Understanding,
20% 15th and Intellectual Skills Final 5
)written(
100 % Total

6- List of References:

6.1- Essential text books:

 Greenberg MS, Glick M and Ship JA. Burket’ s Oral Medicine, Diagnosis and
Treatment. 12th ed. PMPH – USA; 2015.
 Cawson RA and Odell EW. Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine.
8th ed. London: Churchill Livingstone; 2008.
 Michael A. O. Lewis and Richard C. K. Jordan. A Colour Handbook Oral Medicine.
2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press/ Taylor & Francis Group; 2012.

6.2- Recommended readings:

 Bruch JM and Triester NS. Clinical oral Medicine and Pathology. New York: Humana
Press; 2010.
 Periodicals and websites: Journal Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine.
Dentistry and Oral Sciences Source, Medline.
7- Facilities Required for Teaching and Learning:

 Properly equipped lecture rooms with adequate audio visual aids and Wi-Fi.
 Properly equipped clinics with adequate audio visual aids and specialty related equipment.
 Library equipped with all related text books and periodicals.
 Adequate number of staff members and auxiliaries.