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Health Occupations > Dentistry > Oral Medicine

Preferred term

Oral Medicine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Medicine, Oral
  • Stomatology

Note

  • "a branch of dentistry dealing with dis of the oral and paraoral struct and the oral management of system dis"; SPEC; entry term STOMATOLOGY: seen most often in foreign lit: translate as "oral medicine"; "stomatol dis" = MOUTH DISEASES

Scope note

  • A branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the oral and paraoral structures and the oral management of systemic diseases. (Hall, What is Oral Medicine, Anyway? Clinical Update: National Naval Dental Center, March 1991, p7-8)

History note

  • 97; was see DENTISTRY 1980-96; STOMATOLOGY was see DENTISTRY 1989-96

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019242

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