Oral Medicine is the discipline of dentistry concerned with the oral health care of patients with chronic, recurrent and medically related disorders that affect the oral and maxillofacial region, including their diagnosis and non-surgical management.

Sometimes, patients experience unusual changes in the mouth, teeth, gums, tongue, or throat that may be caused by local or systemic disease. You may present with odd symptoms such as chronic bleeding gums even with good oral hygiene, painful gums or non-healing mouth sores, unexplained loose teeth that do not heal after extractions, an unusually dry mouth or even lumps in your mouth or neck area.

Early detection of diseases in the mouth and surrounding area is paramount to the successful management and treatment of a presenting condition. Although you may simply have an easy-to-manage oral ulcer or infection, you might also be experiencing an inflammatory response due to an underlying autoimmune disease, an allergic reaction, or more seriously, symptoms indicative of a systemic disease such as Diabetes mellitus, HIV or even mouth/throat cancer.

Dr. Glen-Spyron may perform a number of assessments and tests to determine what is causing the symptoms you are experiencing in order to diagnose the disease. Usually, a biopsy or tissue removal is the best way to determine a diagnosis as the sample is sent to a laboratory for analysis.