The impact of Oral Medicine ’s global efforts on advancing oral health care, discovery, and dissemination of best practices

Oral Medicine (OM) is often referred to as the interface between Dentistry and Medicine, and after years without formal specialty status in the United States, this discipline is now recognized as a specialty by the American Dental Association (ADA). One important aspect of this long journey on the part of the American Academy of Oral Medicine (AAOM) that led to specialty status was increased involvement with our colleagues in OM around the world. Most notably, in the mid-1980s, Professor Sir David Mason (University of Glasgow, Scotland) and Dr.
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research