A 10-year-old boy was referred to the Joint Paediatric-Oral Medicine clinic with a five-month history of an erythematous ‘spongy’ lesion involving the...

I recently commenced work in an Oral Medicine department at a Dental Hospital and it has struck me just how common vascular lesions, in particular...

Readers may be interested to learn about a collaborative project between NHS Education for Scotland, the university dental schools and the dental...

On presentation, the patient did not have any complaints relating to the objects present in the head and neck region as they were entirely...

The prevalence of EDS is reported to be 1 in 5,000,5 however, recent clinical studies suggest that joint hypermobility syndromes are under diagnosed6...

A 28-year-old male patient was referred to the Restorative Dentistry department for management of his drug-influenced gingival overgrowth. His...

Orofacial granulomatosis was first described in 1985 by Weisenfeld et al, who reported 60 cases presenting with lymphoedema and the presence of...

Referrals relating to pain associated with dental implants presenting to the Leeds Dental Institute via the Restorative and Oral Medicine departments...

Type I diabetes is characterized by autoimmune destruction of β-cells that secrete insulin in the pancreas. The basis for autoimmune theory comes from...

From 2012 to 2016, five patients with oral lymphoma presented to the Oral Medicine Department at Charles Clifford Dental Hospital. The patients were...

Tooth wear, or as it is also often referred to as non-carious tooth surface loss (TSL), can be described simply as ‘the pathological non-carious loss...

For over 200 years, there has been an ever-increasing body of evidence regarding the risks of tobacco use.1 Links between clay pipe smoking and...

Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous disease. It commonly involves the oral mucosa but other extra-oral sites may be affected...