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Dental Education
Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of the mouth, most commonly focused on dentition (the development and arrangement of teeth) as well as the oral mucosa. Dentistry may also encompass other aspects of the craniofacial complex including the temporomandibular joint. The practitioner is called a dentist. The history of dentistry is almost as ancient as the history of humanity and civilization with the earliest evidence dating from 7000 BC to 5500 BC. Dentistry is thought to have been the first specialization in medicine which have gone on to develop its own accredited degree with its own specializations. Dentistry is often also understood to subsume the now largely defunct medical specialty of stomatology (the study of the mouth and its disorders and diseases) for which reason t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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GI or Gi may refer to: Military * G.I., a nickname (from galvanized iron) for U.S. Army soldiers Arts and entertainment * ''GI'' (album), an album by the Germs * Gi (Captain Planet character) * ''Game Informer'', a magazine * Global Icon (band), a South Korean group Organisations * Goethe-Institut, a German cultural association * General Instrument, an electronics company * Gesellschaft für Informatik, a German computer society * Itek Air (IATA airline designator), a former airline based in Kyrgyzstan * Guaranteed Irish, a business membership network Science and technology * GI, a complexity class in the graph isomorphism problem * Galvanized iron Biology and medicine * Gi alpha subunit, a protein * Gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) * Gigantocellular reticular nucleus, a subregion of the medullary reticular formation * Glycemic index, measuring a food's effect on blood glucose Computing * .gi, the country code top-level domain for Gibraltar * Gi (prefix symbol) (gibi), a bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
