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Descriptor English:   Surgery, Oral 
Descriptor Spanish:   Cirugía Bucal 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Cirurgia Bucal 
Synonyms English:   Maxillofacial Surgery
Oral Surgery
Surgery, Maxillofacial
Exodontics  
Tree Number:   E06.892
H02.163.876.886
Definition English:   A dental specialty concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disease, injuries, and defects of the human oral and maxillofacial region. 
Indexing Annotation English:   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
See Related English:   Dentistry, Operative
Oral Surgical Procedures
 
History Note English:   EXODONTICS was see TOOTH EXTRACTION 1965-97; was EXODONTIA see TEETH EXTRACTION 1963-64 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification EC economics
ED education ES ethics
HI history IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence MA manpower
MT methods NU nursing
OG organization & administration PX psychology
RH rehabilitation ST standards
SN statistics & numerical data TD trends
UT utilization  
Record Number:   13896 
Unique Identifier:   D013515 

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