The business model of oral medicine – disrupting the practice of dental medicine

Oral medicine is defined by the American Academy of Oral Medicine as the discipline of dental medicine concerned with the oral health care medically complex patients, including the diagnosis and management of medical conditions that affect the oral maxillofacial region.1 This area of oral health care has developed worldwide in the past eighty years. Accredited training programs exist with established goals, competencies, and experiences in several parts of the world. Oral medicine practitioners must be knowledgeable of the principles of internal medicine, dermatology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and pharmacology, among others, to be able to provide appropriate care to complex cases in an interdisciplinary team.

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