DABOM case studies

The DABOM credential - the Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine - is a professional certification for dentists who have completed advanced training in oral medicine and who want external validation of their judgment in medically complex oral care. It signals that a clinician can evaluate and manage patients whose oral findings sit at the intersection of dentistry and medicine: mucosal disease, orofacial pain, salivary dysfunction, and oral manifestations of systemic illness. Candidates are typically residents or graduates of oral medicine programs, but the underlying knowledge is also relevant to hospital dentists, oral pathology-oriented clinicians, and general practitioners who see a high volume of medically compromised patients. The examination is multiple choice and samples broadly across diagnosis and assessment, orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders, mucosal and mucocutaneous disease, oral and maxillofacial pathology and oncology, salivary gland disorders and xerostomia, oral manifestations of systemic disease, pharmacology and therapeutics, and oral infection and immunity. The DABOM case studies are 5 cases and about 2,901 words.