Thousands of unique rare diseases are circulating within the U.S. population, and dentists may encounter a wide variety of oral manifestations when they have a patient with a rare disease. Signs and symptoms in the mouth of a rare disease can appear in many ways, including early tooth loss, loosening and drifting of teeth, soft tissue and bone lesions, spontaneous fractures, facial deformities, and gingival ulcers. 

Read the latest issue of AGD Impact to learn about some of the rare diseases that could show up in your dental practice, then purchase and take the corresponding Self-Instruction exercise to pick up one CE credit (730 Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis, Oral Pathology).