Department of Oral Medicine is a specialized dentistry area that treats various diseases generated in mouth, face and jaw through internal medical treatment. The oral, facial and jawbone diseases that require internal medical treatment include temporomandibular disease, facial pain, trigeminal neuralgia, oral mucosal disease, dry mouth, disturbance of taste, bad breath, oro-motor dysfunction, snoring and sleep apnea syndrome.
Because many of these diseases may be caused by holistic reasons, it is permissible to say that Oral Medicine is situated in between the full body and mouth. The other functions of the Department of Oral Medicine are to provide diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases for the dental patients with systematic disease, and the legal application of the dentistry.
The dentist who is equipped with specialized treatment ability for the above diseases is called Oral Physician.