Dr. Ricardo Jose Padilla DDS
Pathologist | Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
3040 Manning Drive Old Dental Building Cb 7450 Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Ricardo Padilla is a pathologist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Padilla is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Padilla can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Padilla may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The AAOMP case challenge: painful mandibular mass associated with a molar.
- AAOMP Case Challenge: a non-expansile radiolucency of the posterior mandible.
- Featured topic: contact allergy to dental fillings.
- Incidental findings from cone beam computed tomography of the maxillofacial region: a descriptive retrospective study.
- Evaluation of a collagen scaffold for cell-based bone repair.
- Massive enlargement of the anterior mandible.
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