Talk:Oral and maxillofacial pathology

message: Many of the items listed in this navbox are not really items included in an either an oral pathology text book or a dental school oral pathology course.  Oral pathologists would not be concern themselves with many of the things listed here, and the things that they would concern themselves with, such as squamous cell carcinoma, aneurysmal bone cysts and lichen planus are overtly absent.  Let me know what you think about shifting the quality of this box to a more precise and structured coverage of actual oral pathology. DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 20:39, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As it appears currently, everything included in the the navbox would be mentioned in an oral pathology text book but there are still more items missing.  I would not remove anything from the box or make it "more precise," as all these items are relevant. - Dozenist talk 14:56, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topics included 

message: I think the copyvio is now addressed. I've changed the title to "Stomatognathic disease" to support NIH terminology, but if you would like to change it to ADA terminology, I have no objection. --Arcadian (talk) 03:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio/name

message: This is a poor choice imo. The specialty of oral pathology is surely notable enough for its own page. After all, the other specialties do not redirect like this...lesion (talk) 23:57, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect from Oral pathology ? 

message: The lead states "mouth disease refers to the diseases of the mouth ("stoma") and jaw [1] ("gnath")." Would it not be more accurate to say "mouth disease refers to diseases of the mouth"? The 2 main issues here are the name of the page, which is directly generated from the intended scope of the article.
If it is going to be about mainly diseases occurring in the mouth, suggest "oral pathology", "mouth disease", disorder or other similar variations.
If it is going to be about diseases of the mouth, jaws and face, suggest "oral and maxillofacial pathology", "orofacial disease" "stomatognathic disorder" and similar variations.
If it is going to be about the speciality which deals with the histopathologic diagnosis of biopsied lesions taken from the mouth, in my country this is a subspeciality of dentistry termed "oral pathology" or less commonly "oral and maxillofacial pathology". Likely varies around the world. As far as I am aware, there is no wikipedia article so far about this specialty so it would be good to have some content about it.
When restructuring this article, it would be good to list the most common reasons for people to visit a dentist, viz. dental decay, gum disease and bad breath in that order of prevalence. Lesion (talk) 09:41, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and scope 

message: Seems to be a stub duplicating info on the above page. Lesion (talk) 23:32, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Tentatively support. Difficult because name is a bit non-specific. Thoughts on merging with Otolaryngology? LT90001 (talk) 01:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: But listen to what that article defines head and neck pathology as: "the subspecialty of surgical pathology and dentistry which [...]". It is describing oral pathology (in the UK) and oral and maxillofacial pathology (US). Lesion (talk) 10:29, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Head and neck pathology]] 

message: I have organized these series of articles as follows:Lesion (talk) 15:24, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New organization of oral pathology topics

message: I've had a quick look at the info box and it says Oral & Maxillofacial falls under the "speciality" of "gastroenterology". I'd assume the speciality is neuromuscular or oral medicine, I'm pretty certain than it's nothing to do with the digestive system though. I understand that under ICD10 it may fall under this section, but it just doesn't sound right to me. Arkhangelsk185 (talk) 11:36, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oral cavity is part of digestive system. Oral and maxillofacial pathology is a specialty in its own right, so I feel that the specialty part of the infobox is redundant here. Not sure how one would hide it, perhaps  May know. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 13:34, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As this is not a disease should not have a disease infobox. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 13:37, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's acting as a kind of parent article about all oral and maxillofacial diseases, also with a section at the end about omfp as a specialty. Yes perhaps infobox disease is inappropriate here. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 13:41, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a go at fixing things by adding infobox occupation. For future reference if you want the specialty field not to appear, just leave it blank. Matthew Ferguson (talk) 13:51, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gastroenterology?