Mapping oral medicine (stomatology) & oral and maxillofacial pathology international organizations: a scoping review of global data and historical analysis

Thaís Cristina Esteves-Pereira; Erison Santana Dos Santos; João Adolfo Costa Hanemann; Pablo Agustin Vargas; Márcio Ajudarte Lopes; Willie F P van Heerden; Caroline Bissonnette; René Luis Panico; Wilfredo Alejandro González-Arriagada; Mario Nava-Villalba; Karen Patricia Domínguez Gallagher; Ronell Bologna-Molina; Cristina Saldivia-Siracusa; Paswach Wiriyakijja; Raghu Anekal Radhakrishnan; Arwa Mohammad Farag; Toru Nagao; Yu-Feng Huang; Richeal Ni Riordain; Márcio Diniz-Freitas; Hélios Bertin; Camile S Farah; Adalberto Mosqueda-Taylor; Danyel Elias da Cruz Perez; Keith David Hunter; Alessandro Villa; Alan Roger Santos-Silva

doi:10.1016/j.oooo.2024.07.016

Mapping oral medicine (stomatology) & oral and maxillofacial pathology international organizations: a scoping review of global data and historical analysis

Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2024 Aug 21:S2212-4403(24)00444-9. doi: 10.1016/j.oooo.2024.07.016. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Thaís Cristina Esteves-Pereira¹, Erison Santana Dos Santos¹, João Adolfo Costa Hanemann², Pablo Agustin Vargas¹, Márcio Ajudarte Lopes¹, Willie F P van Heerden³, Caroline Bissonnette⁴, René Luis Panico⁵, Wilfredo Alejandro González-Arriagada⁶, Mario Nava-Villalba⁷, Karen Patricia Domínguez Gallagher⁸, Ronell Bologna-Molina⁹, Cristina Saldivia-Siracusa¹, Paswach Wiriyakijja¹⁰, Raghu Anekal Radhakrishnan¹¹, Arwa Mohammad Farag¹², Toru Nagao¹³, Yu-Feng Huang¹⁴, Richeal Ni Riordain¹⁵, Márcio Diniz-Freitas¹⁶, Hélios Bertin¹⁷, Camile S Farah¹⁸, Adalberto Mosqueda-Taylor¹⁹, Danyel Elias da Cruz Perez²⁰, Keith David Hunter²¹, Alessandro Villa²², Alan Roger Santos-Silva²³

Affiliations

¹ Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
² School of Dentistry, Federal University of Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, Brazil.
³ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Pathcare Laboratory, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Stomatology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁵ Oral Medicine Department, Dentistry College, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentine.
⁶ Facultad de Odontología, Universidad de los Andes, Chile.
⁷ Pathology Research and Diagnostic Center, Microbiology and Pathology Department, Health Sciences University Center, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico.
⁸ Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil; School of Dentistry, National University of Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay.
⁹ Molecular Pathology Area, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de la República, General las Heras 1925, Montevideo, Uruguay.
¹⁰ Department of Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand; Center of Excellence in Genomics and Precision Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Pathum Wan, Bangkok, Thailand.
¹¹ Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
¹² Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Dentistry, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Department of Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
¹³ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Aichi Gakuin University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan.
¹⁴ College of Oral Medicine and Department of Stomatology, Chung Shan Medical University and affiliated Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan.
¹⁵ Cork University Dental School and Hospital, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Wilton, Cork, Ireland.
¹⁶ Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
¹⁷ Service de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale et Stomatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, University of Nantes, Nantes, France.
¹⁸ Australian Centre for Oral Oncology Research & Education, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
¹⁹ Departamento de Atención a la Salud, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico.
²⁰ Department of Clinical and Preventive Dentistry, Oral Pathology Unit, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
²¹ Liverpool Head and Neck Centre, Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
²² Oral Medicine, Oral Oncology and Dentistry, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, USA; Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
²³ Oral Diagnosis Department, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: alan@unicamp.br.

PMID: 39327201
DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2024.07.016

Abstract

Objectives: To describe the historical evolution and dissemination of the Oral Medicine and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology international societies and associations across the globe, and to provide insights into their significant contributions toward oral health promotion.

Study design: This review was conducted in accordance with the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group guidance. The reporting followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR).

Results: Search strategy was applied to 5 databases (MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS)) and grey literature (Google Scholar, Open Grey and ProQuest), as well as additional sources, such as organization websites. Eighty-nine sources were included in this review. Forty-six professional associations/societies were identified, of which 39 represented a country or geopolitical region, 2 represented continents, 2 represented multinational organizations and 3 multinational study groups.

Conclusions: Documentation of the historical establishment and development of Oral Medicine and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology organizations worldwide is limited and describing these processes remains challenging. Analysis of global data reveals heterogeneous development and distribution, resulting in disparities in accessibility and standardization. Further efforts toward oral health promotion should be implemented.

Publication types

Review