This seminar will present a potpourri of interesting case studies in oral and maxillofacial pathology and radiology covering a variety of conditions encountered in general and specialty dental practices. The presenters will utilize an interactive audience participation platform (such as Poll Everywhere) which will enable participants to anonymously respond and interact with the presenters throughout the presentations. In addition, the lecture will be customized by the audience responses and questions to better facilitate learning.
Emphasis will be placed on lesions and conditions commonly seen in dental practice, especially those difficult to diagnose and/or manage, newly diagnosed conditions, and premalignant or malignant lesions. The topics will cover a wide range of topics spanning human papilloma virus including oro-pharyngeal HPV driven cancers to various benign lesions of the oral mucosa. Various types of malignancies, clinical features of early cancers, newer challenging entities including proliferative verrucous carcinoma and other high-risk lesions will be emphasized. Non-squamous malignancies such as lymphomas and plasma cell neoplasms (a group of increasingly common lesions), salivary gland tumors, sarcomas etc will also be presented in a case series format. Soft tissue and bone pathology including both commonly encountered radiographic lesions to rarer or life-threatening conditions, will be presented. We will highlight the incredibly diverse nature of oral ulcerations and discuss the etiology, diagnosis and treatment for these lesions. Important challenging oral conditions especially osteochemonecrosis related to newer anti-resorptive/anti-angiogenic medications will be discussed. The impact of these and other drugs on implant success will also be discussed as will the new increase in cases of foreign cosmetic materials implanted in oral tissues.