Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is an allergic reaction in the oral cavity subsequent to the consumption of food such as fruits, nuts, and vegetables. It occurs mainly due to homology of proteins of pollen to the proteins of fruits and vegetables. In OAS, the immune system produces antibodies that are directed against the proteins of pollen and structurally similar proteins in food, hence, resulting in allergic symptoms limited mainly to the oral cavity. In this review, we have summarized the etiopathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of OAS as an update for stomatologists.
I was using the word stomatologist because there is an equivalent in my native language, but today in English class I heard this term is rather not used, because the preferred one is dentist.
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It was very easy to find the etymology of dentist (from French). The etymology of stomatologist was not so easy to dig. But as the suffix -(o)logy indicates, it is a Greek neologism.
In most of the world, dentists are trained alongsidephysicians and do a specialty residency in stomatology, themedical study ofthe mouth and its diseases. The planet has aroundone million den-tists and they are mostly referred to asstomatologists. Lecturing around the world, it is very apparentthe difference this training makes in how dentists in Americapractice verses how stomatologists practice.
It seems that in English, stomatologist is mainly used in scientific contexts, and dentist is so largely used because it is not restricted to scientific context. Even a child understands what a dentist is. This difference may be compared with the difference in use of the terms doctor, medical practitioner, medic, which all mean the same. Doctor is the largely used term, but in scientific literature, words like medical practitioner and medic are encountered. 2ff7e9595c
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