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What are the 16 things that you examine during an intra and extra oral examination and describe things that you look at and record?

Author: Tilly Hamilton



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1. Overall appearance of patient (posture, size, breathing) 2. Face (injuries, shape) 3. Skin (colour, texture, scars, growths) 4. Eyes (size of pupils, colour, protruding) 5. Nodes-Palpate (size and pain to: Pre – and posticular, Occipital, Submental and Submandibular, Cervical chain, Supraclavicular) 6. Glands-Palpate (size or pain to: Parotid, Submental, Submandibular) 7. Tempomandibular joint- Palpate (limitations or deviations, pain, clicking or noise) 8. Lips-Observe and Palpate (colour, texture, size, lesions, cracks, ulcers, cold sores) 9. Breath odor (severity in relation to OH) 10. Labial and buccal mucosa (colour, size, texture, contour, lesions to: vestibule, mucobuccal folds, frena, stenstons duct, cheeks) 11. Tongue (colour, size, texture, shape, fissures, coatings, lesions to: vestibule, dorsal, lateral borders, base of tongue, deviation on extension) 12. Floor of mouth (veins, thickness, lesions, frena limitations to: ventral surface, ducts, muscoa, frena) 13. Saliva (quantity, quality, dry mouth/lips?) 14. Hard palate (height, contour, colour, rugae, tori, growths, ulcers) 15. Soft palate (colour, size, shape, growths, ulcers) 16. Tonsillar region, throat (size, shape, colour, lesions)


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