Oral biopsy in general dental practice

Mainly oral and maxillofacial surgeons are dejecting general dental practitioners from taking surgical biopsy specimens. In the past few years, undergraduate students in dental specialty areas such as oral medicine and oral pathology, and oral and maxillofacial surgery, are trained to amplify their self-confidence in investigating and as well as taking biopsy ability.[1] Proper management of a patient with any oral lesion begins by means of a precise diagnosis. The existing golden criterion for identification is the histopathologic assessment of a tissue biopsy of the doubtful lesion. This is mainly depending on the clinician undertaking a suitable biopsy and providing sufficient medical information, and on the pathologist accurately interprets the biopsy result. Thus, this article focuses on the procedures to undertake biopsy in general dental practice.[2]