Oral Pathology

The Department of Oral Pathology of the Stomatological Hospital Affiliated to the Medical School of Nanjing University (Nanjing Stomatological Hospital) was established in August 1974 and currently has 1 chief physician, 1 associate chief physician, 2 attending physicians, 1 supervising technician and 2 technicians. The director of the Department of Pathology, Dr. Huang Xiaofeng, holds a medical doctorate and is a chief physician, a master's supervisor at the Medical School of Nanjing University, director of the Teaching and Research Section of Basic Stomatology of the Medical School of Nanjing University, director of the Teaching and Research Section of Oral Histology and Pathology of the Stomatological School of the Medical School of Nanjing University, a leader of the seventh batch of Nanjing's middle-aged and young professional-technical discipline leaders, a third-tier candidate of the fourth phase of Jiangsu Province's "333 High-Level Talent Cultivation Project", a member of the first batch of Jiangsu's "Outstanding Health Talents", a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th committees of the Pathology Specialty Branch of the Nanjing Medical Association, a member of the 3rd Oral Pathology Specialty Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association, and a standing member of the 4th and 5th Oral Pathology Specialty Committees of the Chinese Stomatological Association.

The department is fully equipped and undertakes biopsy work on oral and maxillofacial tissues. Through morphological observation, combined with histochemistry, immunohistochemistry and various morphometric studies, it makes accurate diagnoses of oral diseases, thereby guiding clinical treatment and evaluating prognosis. The department has a complete management system with clearly defined responsibilities at all levels. It now performs examination items such as routine biopsy, rapid frozen section, histochemical staining, immunohistochemical staining, preparation of tooth sections and ground sections, preparation of whole-organ macro-sections, pathology graphic-text reports and consultation on difficult pathology cases; pathology data are managed in a standardized, large-scale and information-based manner. On average nearly 3,000 routine biopsies, more than 1,000 rapid frozen sections, more than 100 histochemical stainings, more than 800 immunohistochemical stainings and nearly 200 difficult pathology consultations are completed annually. Pathology technical work is proceduralized, institutionalized and standardized: the excellence rate of HE staining and immunohistochemistry sections is >90%, and the pass rate of internal quality assessment of immunohistochemical staining is ≥90%. Pathology diagnostic reports are timely, accurate and standardized: the consistency rate between frozen section and routine paraffin section diagnosis is ≥95%, and the diagnostic accuracy of paraffin sections is ≥99%. In the pathological diagnosis of various difficult diseases of the oral and maxillofacial region and of specific specialty diseases such as oral mucosal diseases, jaw diseases, non-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases of the salivary glands, oral and maxillofacial cysts, odontogenic tumors and tumor-like lesions, and tumors and tumor-like lesions of other tissue origins in the oral and maxillofacial region, the department has reached an advanced level in China. The Department of Oral Pathology is a national-level standardized residency training base and is responsible for the standardized training of residents in oral pathology; it is a member unit of the editorial committee for the digital textbook "Oral Histology and Pathology" of the 5th Textbook Review Committee of stomatology programs of national higher education institutions; and it participated in and completed the production of digital teaching sections for the Oral Pathology Specialty Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association. The department has long undertaken the teaching of oral histology and pathology and of new advances in oral histology and pathology, as well as internship supervision, for seven-year program students and three-year master's students in stomatology at the Medical School of Nanjing University. The department leads 1 Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation project, 2 research projects of the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department and 2 Nanjing Medical Science and Technology Development Fund projects, and participates in 2 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 1 National Natural Science Foundation Youth project. It has won 1 second prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 3 third prizes of the Nanjing Science and Technology Progress Award and 1 first prize of the Nanjing Medical New Technology Introduction Award. It has published 9 SCI papers and more than 60 papers in core journals, participated in publishing 29 SCI papers and more than 100 papers in core journals, and served as deputy editor-in-chief of 1 monograph. The Department of Oral Pathology adheres to quality as its core and the patient as its center, standardizes work processes, strengthens team spirit, attaches importance to echelon building, and constantly pursues new knowledge, thereby improving the department's competitiveness.