Oral Pathology

Disorders of development of teeth - number, size, structure; dental caries - aetiology, pathology, immunological aspects; other disorders of teeth - eruption and shedding, non-bacterial loss of tooth substance, discoloration, transplantation and reimplantation, root fracture, age changes; disorders of dental pulp - pulpitis, healing of the pulp, calcification, necrosis, age changes; periapical periodontitis - aetiology, acute periapical perodontitis, chronic periapical periodontitis (periapical granuloma), acute periapical abscess and spread of inflammation; cysts of the jaws and oral soft tissues - classification and incidence, odontogenic cysts: definitions and origins, non-odontogenic cysts, non-epithelialized primary bone cysts, cysts of the soft tissues; diseases of the periodontium - chronic gingivitis and periodontitis, chronic hyperplastic gingivitis and drug associated hyperplasias, desquamative gingivitis, lateral periodontal abscess, pericoronitis, age changes in the periodontium; connective tissue hyperplasia, neoplasia and related disorders of the oral mucosa; keratoses and related disorders of the oral mucosa - classification, hereditary conditions, traumatic keratoses, leukoplakia, dermatological causes of white patches; oral epithelial tumours, melanocyic naevi, and malignant melanoma - squamous cell papilloma and lesions associated with HPV, squamous cell carcinoma, premalignant lesions and conditions, exfoliative cytololgy, basal cell carcinoma (rodent ulcer), melanocytic naevi and malignant melanoma; infections of the oral mucosa - viral, bacterial, fungal, HIV infection and AIDS; oral ulceration and vesiculobullous diseases - classification of oral ulceration, traumatic ulceration, recurrent apthous stomatitis (RAS), vesiculobullous diseases; miscellaneous disorders of the oral mucosa; diseases of the salivary glands - developmental anomalies, sialadenitis, obstructive and traumatic lesions, Sjogren syndrome and related disorders, sialosis, salivary gland tumours, age changes; odontomes and odontogenic tumours - classification, tumours of debatable origin; inherited, developmental, inflammatory and metabolic disorders of the bone; Paget's disease, tumours and tumour-like lesions of the bone - central giant-cell granuloma, torus palatinus, torus mandibularis and other exostoses, tumours of the bone, idiopathic histiocytoses (histiocytosis-X), haemangioma of the bone, metastatic tumours; diseases of the temporomandibular joint - developmental disorders, inflammatory disorders, osteoarthrosis, functional disorders, loose bodies, neoplasms, age changes in the jaws and temporomandibular joint, trismus.