School of Dentistry

Department of Diagnostic Sciences

 

The Department of Diagnostic Sciences serves the people and dental profession of the state of Louisiana and surrounding areas by providing teaching, scholarly activity, and patient care. Faculty members include general dentists, oral and maxillofacial radiologists, public health dentists, orofacial pain specialists, and oral and maxillofacial pathologists. Faculty members teach students in the dental hygiene, dentistry, and advancd education programs.

In didactic and clinical courses, faculty members educate students on management of medically-compromised patients, including obtaining and evaluating pertinent medical and dental history. Students learn to provide comprehensive examinations and develop logical treatment plans that incorporate the patient's systemic and oral health needs. Students learn proper techniques for performing a thorough head-and-neck and intraoral examination including diagnosis and management of oral lesions and craniofacial pain conditions.

Instruction in selecting, exposing, and interpreting intraoral and extraoral radiographs is provided to students and residents. Dental assistants receive certification in digital and conventional radiology. Our oral and maxillofacial radiologists work with all other departments and the public by providing cone beam CT scans, extraoral and intraoral images, continuing education courses, and consultation services. https://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/fdp/our-services-radiology.aspx

Faculty members in oral and maxillofacial pathology educate students in the  recognition, diagnosis, and management of a broad spectrum of diseases and lesions that present in patients of all ages. Faculty members provide clinical consultations throughout the school and to outside dental professionals. They teach continuing education courses and offer interdisciplinary consultation to external hospitals and other pathology laboratories. The LSU Oral Pathology Biopsy Service offers support to the dental school clinics, private practice oral health care providers, and the public by processing and interpreting over 5,000 biopsy specimens anually. https://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/fdp/our-services.aspx#om-path

View rosters of full-time and part-time faculty members in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences.