Didactic and clinical experience in sedation techniques, and monitoring of the sedated patient are presented. Also included are the diagnosis and management of office medical emergencies. The Oral Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine course provides comprehensive instruction in the areas of oral and physical diagnosis, oral and maxillofacial radiology, oral pathology, clinical pharmacology and medical emergencies. The course enables students to obtain, interpret, and record a comprehensive medical and dental history and to safely manage medically and pharmacologically complex patients. Students are taught to perform thorough head and neck and intraoral examinations, recognize abnormal clinical findings, and obtain appropriate laboratory tests.
Students also learn to identify and manage common medical emergencies.
Students receive instruction in ionizing radiation and learn to obtain and interpret common radiographic images to recognize normal anatomic landmarks and the appearance of periodontal disease and dental caries. The course also covers the etiology, pathogenesis, and classic radiographic and clinic appearances of a variety of developmental abnormalities and pathological of conditions of the jaws, teeth, the sinuses, and the salivary glands.