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Abstract
A dental specialty concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disease, injuries, and defects of the human oral and maxillofacial region.
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- Maxillofacial Surgery
- Surgery, Maxillofacial
- Surgery, Oral
- Exodontics
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, nursing, organization & administration, psychology, rehabilitation, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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specialty of surgical therapy of diseases, injuries & defects of soft tissue of mouth & jaws; do not confuse with DENTISTRY, OPERATIVE: to restore tooth function; cranio-maxillo-facial surgery does not go here; use instead SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; see also note at ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES
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History Note
EXODONTICS was see TOOTH EXTRACTION 1965-97; was EXODONTIA see TEETH EXTRACTION 1963-64
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Oral Surgery. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013515. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013515
- Oral Surgery. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_and_maxillofacial_surgery
- Oral Surgery. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504033