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Oral Pathology and Medicine: Diagnosis and Therapy
This special issue belongs to the section “Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue entitled Oral Pathology and Medicine: Diagnosis and Therapy.
The diagnostic process is often long and challenging to coordinate and requires multidisciplinary collaboration between dentists, general practitioners, pathologists, and surgeons.
In recent years, several non-invasive imaging techniques have been applied to the oral cavity. These techniques can help add information during the clinical examination to shorten the time needed for biopsies and guide the process by selectively identifying and targeting only highly suspicious lesions at their most representative sites.
Moreover, clinical efforts and scientific research are increasingly pursuing the development of new assistive tools and minimally invasive techniques for novel therapeutic approaches. Photodynamic concepts have arisen as a considerable development area of research for both diagnostic and therapeutic clinical applications.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research articles, reviews, case series, and case reports on the diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Alberta Lucchese
Prof. Dr. Dario Di Stasio
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- dentistry
- oral surgery
- oral medicine
- oral pathology
- oral biology
- diagnostic devices
- imaging in oral medicine
- oral diagnosis
- photodynamic therapy
- oral autoimmune diseases
- oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD)
- oral carcinoma
- oral manifestations in patients with systemic diseases

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