PERF 772 Oral Histopathology
The clinical approach to diagnosis of oral diseases through clinicopathologic correlations is emphasized in this course. The causes of various clinical presentations of disease based upon tissue and cellular changes are discussed and demonstrated. A variety of oral diseases of soft and hard tissues are presented using projected clinical and histologic slides, a microscope-closed circuit television set-up and computer aided software programs. Each student has ample opportunity to sharpen diagnostic skills and minimize diagnostic errors by the utilization of clinical history, visual observation and the study of microscopic tissue changes.