Objective:To investigate the effect of teaching practice under the concept of narrative medicine on improving the empathy level of interns in oral mucosal diseases.Methods:The interns of stomatology in the class of 2018 in School of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, were divided into narrative medicine teaching group (27 interns receiving narrative medicine concepts and methods before and during internship) and traditional teaching group (21 interns received patients directly under the guidance of teachers without the addition of narrative medicine concepts and methods). A questionnaire was used to collect the general information of students, and the Chinese version of Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) (the version for medical students) was used to measure the empathy level of students. After the end of internship, a statistical analysis was performed for the scores of both groups, and a questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the acceptance of internship under the guidance of narrative medicine among the students in the narrative medicine teaching group. GraphPad Prism 9.3.0 was used to perform the t-test and the rank sum test. Results:There was a significant difference in JSPE score between the traditional teaching group and the narrative medicine teaching group (92.26±8.23 vs. 104.20±15.65, t=2.70, P=0.005), and in addition, 88.89% (24/27) of the students in the narrative medicine teaching group were interested in participating in internship under the guidance of narrative medicine. However, there was no significant difference in the score of internship between the narrative medicine teaching group and the traditional teaching group (87.28±2.77 vs. 85.47±4.31, t=1.68, P=0.100). Conclusions:Incorporating the concepts and methods of narrative medicine into clinical teaching of oral mucosal diseases can significantly improve the empathy ability of interns and raise the awareness that empathy is as important as scientific literacy among students.

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic oral and facial pain disorder characterized by burning pain in the oral mucosa, with multiple pathogenic factors including psychosocial, neuropathological, endocrine, and immune factors. There is still a lack of effective treatment options that have been demonstrated to work. With the development of research on the pathogenesis and treatment of BMS, multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment has gradually been introduced and become a new trend of diagnosis and treatment. Before multidisciplinary treatment, it is necessary to go through a full and comprehensive diagnosis and analysis, select the best comprehensive treatment plan, take the diagnosis and treatment of stomatology as the basis and premise, and apply other multidisciplinary combined treatment, including the treatment of concurrent diseases, psychological interventions, correction of bad habits, etc. A combination of laser therapy and psychological intervention is a more effective treatment method among the current treatment methods, with high comfort and good acceptance by patients. If necessary, mecobalamin tablets, clonazepam α-lipoic acid and other drugs can be used to nourish nerves and provide symptomatic treatment. The comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment of BMS is expected to become a new trend and provide a new strategy for improving the therapeutic effect.

Objective: To investigate the classification, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment of oral lichenoid lesions and provide a reference for clinical practice. Methods: Hospital ethical approval and patient informed consent were obtained. We report a case of oral lichenoid lesion in children and review the diagnosis and treatment of oral lichenoid damage in the literature. Results: The patient experienced repeated rupture of the dorsal surface of the tongue with pain for more than 3 years. There was a large area of tongue back surface erosion with an irregular shape, surrounded by pearly-white lines. The left erosive area was accompanied by tissue hyperplasia, which was approximately 1.5 cm × 2.0 cm, with tough texture and broad masses. The pathological diagnosis of the patient was oral lichenoid lesion. After biopsy of the dorsal surface of the tongue, the pathological diagnosis of the patient was granulomatous inflammation. The final diagnosis of lichenoid granulomatous stomatitis was made on the basis of the patient's intraoral damage features, systemic history, medication history and histopathological findings. A review of the literature suggests that oral lichenoid lesions have an unknown etiology and need to be clinically differentiated from oral lichen planus, oral lichenoid drug reactions, oral lichenoid contact damage and chronic ulcerative stomatitis. The clinical treatment of oral lichen planus is based on the topical and/or systemic use of glucocorticoids. Conclusion There are still no uniform criteria for the classification and diagnosis of oral lichenoid lesions. They rely mainly on history taking, clinical manifestations and histopathological findings, and the treatment is mainly based on the topical and/or systemic use of glucocorticoids.