Dr Lawson is professor of otolaryngology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. WILLIAM LAWSON, MD, DDS Mount Sinai School of Medicine V arious mucosal abnormalities as well as proliferative and destructive lesions can occur in the oral cavity. Their causes include infectious agents, metabolic disorders, endocrinopathies, injuries, neoplasms, developmental abnormalities, geneti...

Personalized medicine aims to individualize care based on a person's unique genetic, environmental, and clinical profile. Dentists and physicians have long recognized variations between and among patients, and have customized care based on each individual's health history, environment, and behavior. However, the sequencing of the human genome in 2003 and breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, ...

1 Assistant professor, Oro-maxillofacial developmental diseases research center, Department of oral medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Dental school, Rasht, Iran 2 Associate professor, Dental Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Dental School, Mashhad, Iran 3 Assistant professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Mashhad University of Medical Scie...

Oral medicine is a clinical discipline, practiced by periodontists, which concerns itself mostly with the non surgical management of oral mucosal diseases. Many these diseases are rare and discipline less well known – making it essential to identify obstacles this faces. The purpose study was describe private academic practice Medicine. A self-administered, internet-based, questionnaire distrib...