Stomatology

The team provides outpatient care and consulting to hospitalized patients, with the various diseases that affect the Buccomaxilofacial region. Contemplates clinical and surgical procedures (biopsies), monitoring of oncological patients with oral manifestations, laser therapy, aiming at the diagnosis and treatment of infectious, inflammatory, tumor, autoimmune lesions, among others.

Calls occur in Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the afternoon and quintas and farms in the morning.

• What clinical signs can be associated with the presence of oral cancer?

  Coloring change in oral tissues, wounds which does not heal, tissue proliferation in the mucosa of the mouth, bleeding without apparent cause.

• When is it necessary to consult the stomatologist?

  When the patient has oral injuries, burning and pain in any region of the lips and the buccal mucosa, dry mouth, volume increase in tissues, bleeding, etc.

• Who forwards the patient to the stomatologist?

  health professionals, usually dental surgeons and doctors.

• What lesions are usually diagnosed in stomatology?

  All lesions that occur in the mouth and attached areas, such as colds, herpes, oral manifestations of syphilis, AIDS, potentially malignant lesions, oral cancer, buccal adverse effects of radio and chemotherapy, among others.

• What is stomatology?

  It is the specialty of dentistry that deals with mouth disease and attached structures.