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AAOM congratulates Board Members, Dr. Eric Stoopler and Dr. Thomas Sollectio, from Penn Dental Medicine, on publishing a recent article, Medical Mystery: Treatment-resistant mouth sores in Philly.com for The Inquirer. An excerpt is below. A 55-year-old man came to an oral health clinic after suffering from mouth sores for two months. The sores covered his tongue, top and bottom, as well as his lips and the insides of his cheeks, making it hard to eat much of anything. Not surprisingly, he was losing weight. Soon after the mouth sores started, he said, he developed skin, genital, and eye sores. What's more, he was having a little trouble breathing. He was evaluated by his dentist and an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. After a biopsy of his mouth sores, he was diagnosed with a dermatologic disease called lichen planus, a fairly common condition in which the immune system attacks cells of the skin or mucous membranes. Its cause is unknown. Read more....Eric T. Stoopler, D.M.D., is an associate professor of oral medicine, and Thomas P. Sollecito, D.M.D., is a professor of oral medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. A fuller version of this case appeared last year in the Special Care Dentistry Journal
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