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Can’t Miss Oral Lesions: An Interactive Virtual Session

Dentistry

October 25,2026 - 18:00-19:00

Can’t Miss Oral Lesions: An Interactive Virtual Session

Abstract:

Using a live online interactive platform (Poll Everywhere) this session will engage the audience in solving the mystery of oral clinical cases that must be diagnosed and managed urgently.

Introduction:

Potentially serious medical conditions can manifest with oral lesions that are readily detected by clinical examination. Dentists are therefore in an important position to be able to recognize concerning lesions and make timely and appropriate referrals. Dentists must be sufficiently familiar with a wide range of conditions that can present in the oral cavity, even those that are uncommon and rarely encountered in the general population. This session provides an in-depth exploration through a series of interactive cases that highlight the importance of good history taking and careful clinical examination for detecting important non-odontogenic conditions that a dentist simply can’t miss.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Obtain a chief complaint and pertinent medical history for oral medicine conditions.
  2. Perform a comprehensive extraoral and intraoral examination and describe findings.
  3. Develop a hierarchical differential diagnosis of oral medicine conditions based on history and clinical findings.
  4. Recognize and be able to describe orofacial “red flag” symptoms and clinical features.
  5. Understand the basic principles of management of urgent oral medicine conditions including how and where to refer.

Speaker:

Prof. Dr. Nathaniel Simon Treister
DMD, DMSc, DABOM (Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine)

Oral Medicine Specialist and Clinical Director of Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA)
Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
USA

Bio:

Prof. Nathaniel Simon Treister is an oral medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Clinical Director of Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Oral Medicine at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is board certified in Oral Medicine and practices at BWH, DFCI, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, with special interest in oral mucosal diseases, salivary gland diseases, orofacial pain disorders, and oral complications in cancer patients.

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INDEX Conferences & Exhibitions Organization LLC is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. INDEX Conferences & Exhibitions Organization LLC. designates this activity for 1 continuing education credits.

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