Talk:Glossary of dentistry

message: My hygienist pronounces mesial as musial.  Is this kind of variation common?   216.99.198.66 (talk) 02:21, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No -- that would not be a variation of normal.  The two accepted pronunciations are "MEE-zee-ul" and "MEE-zhee-ul" (in the second one, the "zh" is pronounced like Zsa Zsa Gabor. DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of Mesial 

message: We have an article on Anatomical terminology and one on Medical terminology, would there be any support for a move to Dental terminology? Also, as this list is complete and easy to understand/read, editors (?) may wish to consider a featured list nomination. I will at some point link this article from the Anatomical terminology series in a 'see also' area. --LT910001 (talk) 10:35, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with move... "Commonly used terms of relationship and comparison in dentistry" is too long when "dental terminology" says the same thing. Lesion 10:44, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Support move, with a minor complication. Sorry late to comment; I was not aware of this discussion till I saw the move to Dental terminology on my watchlist just now. The title "Dental terminology" is too vague/general for this list in its current form; this is a list of terms for location and direction within the oral cavity. It is thus a subset of dental terminology. This list is the oral cavity homolog to anatomical terms of location, not to anatomical terminology; the former is a subset of the latter. The title Dental terms of location and direction would really be the most accurate. However, I'm OK with leaving the article at its current title (Dental terminology), because this list could be expanded over time to become a full dental glossary ("living up" to the current title). The natural organization scheme would be alphabetical, of course. But I think it would be neat, pedagogically, to keep the "location and direction" list as a separate section; each location/direction term would appear in the main body's A-Z sequence, of course, but their entries there would just be linked cross-refs to their "home base" entry in the location/direction section. This would be just like when you look up "[whatever] syndrome" in Dorland's and it says, "see entry under syndrome". Dorland's follows that pattern for syndrome, disease, sign, nerve, disorder, muscle, test, and other terms. It is useful because you get to see all the subentries for syndrome (or disease, or test) filtered into one list. Regards, Quercus solaris (talk) 14:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Addendum to my comment: BTW, I well realize that the project I just sketched out (a complete dental glossary) is a large volume of work that won't get done anytime soon. But hey, eventually we'll get there. Quercus solaris (talk) 14:31, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

text: I understand your concerns. I think this title is easier to understand, matches these other 'terminology' headings, and perhaps will encourage editing... eventually. We have a similar situation re. anatomy: Glossary of anatomy matching the alphabetical organisation that you state, and Anatomical terminology which is conceptually organised. There is a role for both, in my opinion. --LT910001 (talk) 23:30, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dental terminology