Oral Mucosa Department

Since the 1950s, the department has taken the lead nationwide in conducting clinical diagnosis and treatment and teaching related to oral mucosal diseases, laying a sound foundation and accumulating extensive experience for the standardized development of clinical, teaching, and research work on oral mucosal diseases in China and for the training of professionals specializing in oral mucosal diseases. In the 1970s, the department began to explore the use of an integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine approach to diagnose and treat oral mucosal diseases. At present, the department enjoys a high reputation nationwide for the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and complicated oral mucosal diseases and in the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in oral medicine; it has several internationally and nationally renowned experts, advanced and distinctive diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, and Chinese patent medicine preparations for which it holds independent intellectual property rights. In 2013, the department received support from the National Clinical Key Specialty Construction Project.

Since the 1980s, the department has conducted extensive clinical and basic research related to oral mucosal diseases, greatly advancing the level of clinical diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal diseases. At present, the department's main research directions include: research on potentially malignant lesions of the oral mucosa, research on oral candidiasis, research on vesiculobullous diseases of the oral mucosa, and research on the diagnosis and treatment of oral manifestations of systemic diseases, among others. Some research findings have been widely applied in clinical practice and have achieved good diagnostic and therapeutic results. At present, the department is the chairing institution of the Oral Mucosal Diseases Professional Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association and the vice-chairing institution of the Chinese Stomatological Association's Committee of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Oral Medicine.

Over the past 5 years, the department's daily outpatient volume has reached 150-240 visits, and its annual outpatient volume has exceeded 50,000 visits; more than 60% of patients come from provinces, cities, and autonomous regions throughout the country. The department's level of diagnosis and treatment of recurrent aphthous ulcers, oral lichen planus, oral leukoplakia, oral candidiasis, pemphigus, Sjögren syndrome, and other conditions is at the leading level in China; in some respects, it has reached an internationally advanced level. At present, it has Chinese patent medicine preparations with independent intellectual property rights, such as Taixianping Granules, Ziyin Qingre Granules, Kouyan Kang Granules, Huoxue Shengjin Granules, Yazhou Baidu Granules, and Guchi Jianzhou Granules, and so on.