125Q00000X — Oral Medicine Dentistry
- Grouping
- Dental Providers
- Classification
- Dentist
- Specialization
- Oral Medicine
- Section
- Individual
Definition
Oral Medicine is the specialty of dentistry responsible for the oral health care of medically complex patients and for the diagnosis and management of medically related diseases, disorders and conditions affecting the oral and maxillofacial region. Oral Medicine specialists have training and expertise in the diagnosis and management of oral and mucosal diseases, medical management of maxillofacial pathologies from hematology and oncology, organ transplant services, autoimmune disorders, including acute and chronic pain conditions of oral & maxillofacial region. Oral Medicine specialists co-manage oral and maxillofacial conditions and diseases in collaboration with medical specialists and other dentists in hospitals and outpatient medical clinics, particularly in the management of patients with complex medical conditions requiring multidisciplinary healthcare intervention.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Dentist
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 122300000XDentist
- 1223D0001XDental Public Health
- 1223D0004XDental Anesthesiology
- 1223E0200XEndodontics
- 1223G0001XGeneral Practice
- 1223P0106XOral and Maxillofacial Pathology
- 1223P0221XPediatric Dentistry
- 1223P0300XPeriodontics
- 1223P0700XProsthodontics
- 1223S0112XOral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- 1223X0008XOral and Maxillofacial Radiology
- 1223X0400XOrthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
- 1223X2210XOrofacial Pain