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Referral pattern of patients with oral mucosal lesions in The Netherlands
A Jovanovic1, E A Schulten, I van der Waal
1Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology, Free University Hospital/Academic Centre for Dentistry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
|April 1, 1992
Abstract:
The referral pattern of 140 Dutch patients with oral mucosal lesions, who had been referred to a Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology, shows that patients with oral mucosal lesions consult the dentist as often as the family doctor as the first source of help or information. Furthermore, family doctors were much more used to refer patients with oral mucosal disease to medical specialists rather than to the dentist or the oral and maxillofacial surgeon.