Welcome to the place where dentistry meets medicine! This is a series of blog posts intended to bring closer the discipline of Oral Medicine to those within the field of health, patients suffering with oral disorders, or those merely interested in what’s going on in our mouth! My post today is based on an article I recently came across. “The future of oral medicine” by Prof. Spielman (NYU), is an engaging read that highlights the issue of the Oral Medicine speciality’s “identity crisis”. This...

Referral letters are the most traditional way of communicating confidential patient information between two health professionals. In the context of oral medicine, referral letters are frequently the only method by which information is transmitted between a general dental or medical practitioner and the oral medicine specialist. Additionally, the quality and the content of the referral letter is crucial to allow appropriate prioritisation of urgent oral medicine patients. Even when an oral...