Explore: dental disciplines

| Since the early 1990s, dental education has undergone major changes. Dentistry went from being a specialty of medicine to being an independent career.

Currently, in Spain, they are developed within the framework of postgraduate courses (Masters). Although the postgraduate courses deal with multiple areas of dentistry, this specialization has not been carried out at the healthcare level. The appearance of dental clinics that bring together several professionals, little by little, is generating and making possible the specialization of these dentists.

Dental specialties

• Operative dentistry or conservative covering restorations of teeth using fillings (fillings), veneers or ceramic inlays ...
• Periodontics, which is the branch of dentistry that is dedicated to gum care and the treatment and prevention of periodontal disease.
• orthodontics, which is the part of dentistry that studies dental malocclusions and carries out their treatment.
• Prosthodontics or dental specialty that performs oral rehabilitation using prostheses. These prostheses can be fixed such as bridges (pontics) or removable prostheses (which can be removed from the mouth. Commonly called "removable").
• Endodontics or specialty within dentistry that is dedicated to the treatment of dental pulp and root canals. This constitutes what is popularly called "killing the nerve."
• Gerodontology or part of dentistry that studies and responds to the pathologies of the elderly.
• Pediatric dentistry, is that specialty that treats the pathology of the child and adolescent.
• Implantology which is dedicated to the restoration and rehabilitation of the mouth through.
• Surgery Oral It is the branch of dentistry that I studyday oral pathology (not only dental) carrying out its treatment through a surgical approach.
• Oral medicine acts at the level of study and treatment of oral pathology but from the medical field (without surgery).
• odontology preventive, is dedicated to the study of oral pathologies and the establishment of prevention strategies and programs.

The general dentist, nowadays, assumes a large part of the dental disciplines, although the current trend is to find specialized professionals.