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Description of Services. Oral Medicine is a clinical discipline within dentistry that encompasses the following services:

• Diagnosis and medical management of diseases of the mouth, such as ulcerative and vesiculobullous diseases, red and white lesions of the mucosa, pigmentations of the oral tissue, benign tumors and cancer/precancer of the oral cavity, salivary gland disease, and diseases of the tongue.

• Diagnosis and medical management of facial pain and temporomandibular joint diseases, such as temporomandibular disorders, chronic oral sensory disorders including pain and abnormalities of taste, and oral symptoms without apparent physical abnormality including atypical facial pain, glossodynia and burning mouth syndrome, subjective xerostomia, and idiopathic dysgeusia.

• Diagnosis and treatment of oral manifestations of patients with complicating systemic disease, such as diseases of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, renal disease, hematologic disease, bleeding and clotting disorders, immunologic diseases, endocrine disease and dysfunction, diabetes, neuromuscular diseases, and sexually transmitted and blood borne infections.