CE0703: Practical Approach to Oral Pathology - Setting Reasonable Criteria for Knowing How Best to Manage Oral Soft Tissue and Bony Lesions

Dolphine Oda, BDS, MS

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide the dentists, dental specialists and dental hygienists with practical information to help diagnose oral soft tissue and jaw bone lesion. It is also structured in such a way that would help the dental practitioner set reasonable criteria to decide on when to biopsy, how best to treat and which patient to keep on recall visits and how often and why. This course will also cover prevention and early detection of oral diseases to optimize patient care.

Instructor:

DOLPHINE ODA is a Professor of Oral Pathology in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the UW School of Dentistry.  Dr. Oda's main commitments are to patient care and teaching.  She works efficiently to give patients the best service possible and students the most up-to-date and clinically applied knowledge of oral diseases.  Teaching is her passion; she has taught students of all ages - from elementary schoolers to pathology residents - with enthusiasm and zeal.  To date, she has been honored with 18 teaching awards.  Dr. Oda received her dental degree in 1975 from the University of Baghdad and graduate training in Surgical and Oral Pathology from the University of Manitoba School of Medicine and the Indiana University School of Dentistry.  She also received special training at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.  She is diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and she holds a Washington dental license.  She is also a member of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Internal Association of Oral Pathologists, and the United States-Canadian Academy of Pathology.

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