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Descriptor English: Surgery, Oral
Descriptor Spanish: Cirugía Bucal
Descriptor cirugía oral
Entry term(s) cirugía maxilofacial
exodóntica
Scope note: Especialidad dental que se ocupa del diagnóstico y tratamiento quirúrgico de las enfermedades, lesiones y defectos de la región oral y maxilofacial humana.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cirurgia Bucal
Descriptor French: Chirurgie stomatologique (spécialité)
Entry term(s): Exodontics
Maxillofacial Surgery
Oral Surgery
Surgery, Maxillofacial
Tree number(s): E06.892
H02.163.876.886
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013515
Scope note: A dental specialty concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disease, injuries, and defects of the human oral and maxillofacial region.
Annotation: 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
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
NU nursing
OG organization & administration
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: EXODONTICS was see TOOTH EXTRACTION 1965-97; was EXODONTIA see TEETH EXTRACTION 1963-64
History Note: EXODONTICS was see TOOTH EXTRACTION 1965-97; was EXODONTIA see TEETH EXTRACTION 1963-64
Entry Version: SURG ORAL
Related: Dentistry, Operative MeSH
Oral Surgical Procedures MeSH
DeCS ID: 13896
Unique ID: D013515
NLM Classification: WU 21
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Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Surgery, Oral - Preferred
Concept UI M0020875
Scope note A dental specialty concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disease, injuries, and defects of the human oral and maxillofacial region.
Preferred term Surgery, Oral
Entry term(s) Maxillofacial Surgery
Oral Surgery
Surgery, Maxillofacial
Exodontics - Narrower
Concept UI M0020876
Preferred term Exodontics



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