ISSN: 2684-1290
Talal Al-Nahlawi
Dental Medicine and Oral medicine is also known as Dentistry. It is a division of medicine that covers the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, illnesses, and conditions of the oral cavity, generally in the dentition but also the oral mucosa, and of neighboring and connected structures and tissues, mainly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) part. Although chiefly connected with teeth among the common public, the field of dentistry or dental medicine is not limited to teeth but consist of other features of the craniofacial complex counting the temporomandibular joint and additional supportive, muscular, lymphatic, nervous, vascular, and anatomical structures.