ORAL MEDICINE

STAFF

Professor Emeritus

Garfunkel, A.A., D.M.D.

Sharav, Y., DMD

Galili, D., D.M.D.

Associate Professors

Benoliel, R., B.D.S., L.D.S., R.C.S. (Eng.) (Head of Department)

Kaufman, E., D.M.D. (head of unit for sedation)

Lecturers

Aframian, D., D.M.D., M.Sc.

Czerninski, R., D.M.D.

Elad, S., D.M.D.

Fridlander-Barenboim, S., DMD (in charge of X-Ray unit)

Ayalon, S. D.M.D

Physicians Participating in Teaching

Livni, D., DMD

Yanko, R., DMD

Residents

Almoznino, G., DMD

Nadler, C., DMD

Davidowitz, Z., DMD

Kartin-Gabai, T., DMD

Granot Y., DMD

Keshet N., DMD

Chaviv Y., DMD

INTRODUCTION

The Department Oral Medicine provides teaching and clinical services in the following areas of oral medicine: diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic orofacial pain, oral mucosal and salivary gland lesions; dental and oral care of medically compromised patients; radiological diagnosis of the maxillofacial and oral regions.

The Department provides dental treatment for patients at Hadassah University Hospital and its out-patient clinic, is clinically involved in the treatment of problems arising from the direct connection between the patient’s general health status and oral conditions.

Main research topics are directed toward immediate clinical applications and include: early signs of disease in the oral cavity and possible relations between oral infection and septicemia in leukemia patients: Prevention of bleeding in hemophiliacs, including the antifibrinolytic effect of saliva; The use of nitrous oxide analgesia in patients with severe neurological problems; the use of antiviral agent Acyclovir for preventing Herpes virus infections in patients with leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; monitoring immune system reconstitution and early detection of graft-vs.-host disease via salivary immunoglobulins.

RESEARCH AREAS

Pain Research

§         Clinical Orofacial Pain Syndromes (Benoliel, Sharav)

§         Articain and cardiovascular disease (Kaufman)

§         Histamin and mucositis in bone-marrow transplantation (Elad)

§         Salivary glands (Aframian)

Oral lesions

§         Oral squamous cell carcinoma (Czerninski)