Spotlight on Oral Medicine Webinar Series [1] What matters in social and medical histories? Oral Medicine red flags

Globally, dentists are faced with an ageing population with increasing medical complexity and polypharmacy that impacts day-to-day delivery of dental care. Social history remains significant to several oral medicine complaints, including oral potentially malignant disease. This webinar will provide a framework in taking targeted medical and social histories, explaining how to risk stratify patients and thereby determine those patients who may be at risk of relevant oral medicine related complaints.

Learning outcomes

Develop and use an organ system-based approach to risk stratify medical conditions with impact on oral medicine complaints (especially oral mucosal disease, MRONJ and oral potentially malignant disorders); Identify key medications that pose a need for vigilance to oral medicine condition development with special relevance to MRONJ; Be able to undertake a social history with risk quantification based on recognised metrics of pack-years of smoking and standard units of alcohol. Develop a framework of approach in obtaining a vaping history,

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