Oral Examination
The oral examination in Dentistry means dental checkup, and this is a process used by the dentists to carefully take a review on oral health. The oral examination involves typically the entire mouth, as a first-time visit or a regular 6-month check-up. There are two main types of oral examination: 1. Extraoral examination 2. Intraoral examination The extraoral examination involves the examination of the head and neck which is the integral part of oral examination to provide valuable information the overall assessment of possible oral diseases. As a dentist, you can also examine the cervical lymph glands, by standing behind the individual and slightly flexing and bending the neck to the side so that the sternocleidomastoid muscle becomes relaxed and palpation and identification of any enlarged nodes will be easier. The submandibular, submental and upper deep cervical lymph nodes are commonly involved in the extra oral examination. The examinat...