BS Oral and Maxillofacial Diagnostic Services

For routine cases specimens are processed the same evening as received by the UT Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Laboratory. The following morning the slides are diagnosed by one of three board-certified oral pathologists. Any serious or unusual diagnosis is immediately phoned to the contributing clinician. A request for a faxed histopathologic diagnosis report is also executed at this time. The final histopathologic diagnosis report is included with a new biopsy kit delivered by USPS to the contributor. This report contains specimen and patient information as provided by the contributor; a macroscopic (gross) description of the received specimen(s); a microscopic description of the specimen (if specifically requested); a histopathologic diagnosis; a comment (if applicable); the ICD-9 diagnosis code; the CPT code; and the sign-out oral pathologist's signature and present date.