DEN 708: Oral Pathology

OPATH (Oral Pathology) will be a didactic and lab-based course designed to ensure the student attains a high-level understanding of the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, and management of the numerous pathologic lesions and disorders that may occur in the oral cavity. The LCSDM has identified a number of diseases and conditions affecting the oral cavity that the student should be able to identify and manage. While the discussion of many of these conditions will be interspersed throughout the curriculum, many will be presented in this course. Emphasis will be placed on the student learning to identify and correlate the medical history clues along with the clinical, radiologic, and laboratory findings to generate a defendable differential diagnosis and management strategy. Successful completion of OPATH will be required to progress to the D2 year