On oral medicine’s 100th anniversary: origins, expansion, and future horizons

Thaís Cristina Esteves-Pereira; Camila Barcellos  Calderipe; Saman Warnakulasuriya; Arwa Farag; Rosa María López-Pintor; Felipe Paiva Fonseca; Alan Roger Santos-Silva

doi:10.5327/2525-5711.424

Authors

Thaís Cristina Esteves-Pereira University of Campinas, Piracicaba Dental School, Oral Diagnosis Department – Piracicaba (SP), Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4559-9788
Camila Barcellos Calderipe University of Campinas, Piracicaba Dental School, Oral Diagnosis Department – Piracicaba (SP), Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-7435
Saman Warnakulasuriya King’s College London, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences – London, UK. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2103-0746
Arwa Farag King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3762-3474
Rosa María López-Pintor Complutense University, ORALMED Research Group, Department of Dental Clinical Specialties – Madrid, Spain. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5727-0920
Felipe Paiva Fonseca Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, School of Dentistry, Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology – Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-4547
Alan Roger Santos-Silva University of Campinas, Piracicaba Dental School, Oral Diagnosis Department – Piracicaba (SP), Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2040-6617

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5327/2525-5711.424

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