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Dental terminology "discoloration" or "pigment dystrophy" - a review and practical recommendations
Yevhen Kuzenko1, Olha Mykhno2, Vladyslav Sikora1
1Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
Abstract:
A range of issues related to using English attributive phrases formed by the prefix + noun model in dental literature by modern scientists is considered. Such words' syntactic structure does not correspond to the disease's pathogenesis, which creates certain difficulties in terms of the perception of these syntactic constructions by General Practitioners and Pathologists Our work is devoted to finding an adequate equivalent replacement for the ingrained semantics of phrases that are implicit in nature. Using the term "discoloration", in our opinion, is due to the simplicity of explaining to the patient the change in tooth color under the influence of various exogenous and endogenous factors. Using the term 'pigment dystrophy' for dental patients is a complicated psychological factor. Therefore, there is a substitution of 'pigment dystrophy' to "discoloration" in modern dental literature. The term 'pigment dystrophy' is more pathologically and pathogenetically determined and is more suitable for explaining pathological processes in the teeth' hard tissues. There is no concept of "pigment dystrophy" and "discoloration" of teeth in the current classification of diseases World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-10. As a result of the analysis of the rules and semantics of the terms used by scientists, they are incorrect in many cases.
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