Oral biopsy: Oral pathologist′s perspective

ARtEFActS duRInG oRAL BIoPSY PRocEduRES

IntRoductIon A biopsy is the removal of part, or all, of a lesion, to enable histopathological examination and definite diagnosis. The word, ‘biopsy’ has been derived from the Greek words, ‘Bios’ (life) and ‘Opsis’ (vision): vision of life. Biopsy is the gold standard diagnostic procedure for obtaining adequate representative tissue for histopathological evaluation, for arriving at a final diag...

Small bowel biopsy (per oral).

ARtEFActS duRInG oRAL BIoPSY PRocEduRES

IntRoductIon A biopsy is the removal of part, or all, of a lesion, to enable histopathological examination and definite diagnosis. The word, ‘biopsy’ has been derived from the Greek words, ‘Bios’ (life) and ‘Opsis’ (vision): vision of life. Biopsy is the gold standard diagnostic procedure for obtaining adequate representative tissue for histopathological evaluation, for arriving at a final diag...

Oral biopsy in dental practice.

The conclusions drawn from the study of an oral biopsy are considered essential for the definitive diagnosis of diseases of the oral mucosa, and for the subsequent planning of appropriate treatment. Although the obtainment of biopsies is widely used in all medical fields, the practice is not so widespread in dental practice--fundamentally because of a lack of awareness of the procedure among de...

Use of oral pathology services by general histopathologists and their attitudes to training of oral pathologists.

AIMS (1) To determine whether general histopathologists are aware of oral pathology as a specialist discipline and whether they use oral pathologists to identify lesions of the dental and orofacial tissues which pose diagnostic difficulties to general histopathologists. (2) To establish whether consultant histopathologists would consider dentally qualified applicants for salaried training posts...