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Health Occupations > Dentistry > Oral Medicine

Preferred term

Oral Medicine  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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)

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • Medicine, Oral
  • Stomatology

In other languages

  • French

  • Médecine bucco-dentaire
  • Médecine buccodentaire

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-H541ZZM4-H

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