OasisLMS

This course will look at a variety of clinical presentations of potentially pre-malignant and malignant lesions. Learning how to clinically assess them and determine the appropriate technique to obtain a diagnostic biopsy. Highlighting strategies that will minimize clinical diagnostic pitfalls.

• Participant will learn the definition of a leukoplakia
• Participant will learn the definition of an erythroplakia
• Participant will learn the clinical characteristics of potentially pre-malignant and
• malignant lesions
• Participant will learn clinically ominous signs that should prompt biopsy

Speaker: Tanya Marie Gibson, DDS

Subject: 730 Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology

Credits: 1

Method:  Lecture

Audience:  Students, Residents, Dentists, Dental Assistants, Hygienists

Speaker Bio: Tanya Marie Gibson, DDS is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry. She graduated from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in 2001 and completed her residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 2004. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (AAOMP).