ORTH 5007 - Graduate Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology

1 credit hour

The purpose of the course is to provide students a graduate level training experience in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. The course will serve to review and reinforce basic oral pathology learned in the pre-doctoral curriculum as well as expand and discuss more advanced and controversial topics. A portion of the course will be case based; applying principles of problem based learning where critical thinking and solving problems is emphasized. This later approach will focus on the patient’s presenting signs and symptoms, and through the application of basic principles of the biomedical sciences, work toward developing a differential diagnosis, establishing a definitive diagnosis and deciding on the most appropriate course of treatment for the individual patient. The course will include the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical and microscopic features, treatment and prognosis, as well as differential diagnosis important for the practicing specialist in orthodontics.