title: A new nomenclature for oral and maxillofacial surgery that is facial and oral surgery.
abstract: To assess whether majority of the public and medical professionals do understand the field Oral & Maxillo-Facial Surgery. To find this, a questionnaire was devised based on P. Ammerally et al. 200 members of the public with educated background and 100 general medical practitioners participated in this study. The results revealed that majority of the public needed more information on the field where as the General medical practitioners were aware, but lacked information about the majority of activity in the field.
authors: Departments of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, and General Surgery, College of Dental Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore-575 001, India.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Kumar
authors: S N
authors: SN
authors: Rao
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D010820:Physicians; D011639:Public Opinion; D013515:Surgery, Oral; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D009626:Terminology as Topic