Stomatology and stomatology belong to stomatology. But it belongs to internal medicine and surgery. Similar to the difference between general surgery and general internal medicine, the difference between oral medicine and oral surgery focuses on the treatment and treatment of diseases caused by surgery and trauma (surgery), and the causes of diseases are bacterial infection and immune factors (internal medicine).

2. Different departments

Stomatology includes three small departments, some hospitals will be collectively referred to as stomatology, and some hospitals, especially specialist stomatology hospitals, will set up separate departments: endodontics, periodontics and oral mucosa.

When tooth extraction is needed, such as wisdom teeth, or facial trauma, cleft lip and palate, tumor, etc. You need to go to maxillofacial surgery. Some hospitals will merge joint departments into surgery, while others will become separate departments, so if there is no joint department in the hospital, you can go to surgery.

Extended data

Oral surgery teaching based on tooth extraction. In the following years, the word "oral surgery" was not only used to name the organizational system of hospital departments, but also widely used in various teaching materials and reference books.

The concept of maxillofacial surgery appeared in the early 20th century, but when, in which country and by which scholar it was formally proposed or named "Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery" needs further study.

In Europe, oral and maxillofacial surgery in the former Soviet Union was relatively developed, especially thanks to World War II in the 1940s. Due to the further development of the treatment of maxillofacial war wounds, the name of oral and maxillofacial surgery was widely used and recognized in the former Soviet Union in the late 1940s.

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