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What are the areas of specialty in dentistry?
What are the areas of specialty in dentistry?
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Written by Andrew McLaughlin
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  • Dental Public Health: Dental public health works to prevent and control dental diseases while promoting dental health through public advocacy.

  • Endodontics: Endodontics is the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of conditions of the human dental pulp and periradicular tissues.

  • Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology: Oral pathology is the identification, diagnosis, and management of diseases affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions. This specialty researches oral disease etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment outcomes

  • Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology: Oral and maxillofacial radiology is the discipline of radiology ordering and interpretation of radiologic images for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the oral region.

  • Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Oral and maxillofacial surgery involves diagnosis, surgical treatment of diseases, injuries, and defects of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.

  • Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics: Orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics includes the diagnosis, prevention and modification of malocclusions, neuromuscular, and skeletal abnormalities of the orofacial structures.

  • Pediatric Dentistry: Pediatric Dentistry provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral healthcare for infants through adolescence.

  • Periodontics: Periodontics includes the health, maintenance, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the supporting structures and surrounding tissues in the oral region.

  • Prosthodontics: Prosthodontics pertains to diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and maintenance associated with missing or deficient teeth and oral and maxillofacial tissues using dental prosthesis.

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