Altura Periodontics CE Event

When, Why and How to Biopsy Oral Lesions

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Course Description:

Many of the conditions encountered in oral pathology may be diagnostically challenging to clinicians who do not see them with regularity. This presentation will help distinguish selected common innocuous lesions from more seldom-seen but clinically significant entities. The hands-on portion provides clinicians with experience performing uncomplicated soft-tissue biopsies under local anesthesia in out-patient settings.

In this session, the participant will learn to:

1. Prepare a differential diagnosis of commonly encountered oral infections, immune-mediated diseases, and tumors

2. Develop management strategies including pharmacologic treatment

3. List indications for biopsy and alternative diagnostic procedures; and

4. Compare and perform punch and scalpel biopsy techniques

Registration begins at 5:30pm

Dinner will be served

Course 6pm-8:00pm

* 2 CE Credits *

Please RSVP by August 30, 2019

Mark Lerman, DMD is the Division Director of Oral Pathology at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and is appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences. He divides his time between teaching, clinical practice and the school’s biopsy service.

Dr. Lerman earned both his B.A. in history and D.M.D. from Tufts University. After completing a general practice residency in dentistry at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he trained in oral and maxillofacial pathology at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens in New York City. He was on the faculty at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine for eight years, where he was appointed as an Assistant Clinical Professor, before returning to his alma mater in 2014. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, and he has authored multiple articles in the peer-reviewed oral pathology literature.

Tuition Complimentary

*Space is limited*

Additional parking is available at 3650 S. Yosemite St. Just North of us (next door)