整合医学视角下的牙周病学

Periodontology from the perspective of holistic integrative medicine

随着医学的发展,医学分科逐渐细化,与之相关的问题也日益突显.其表现为：仅关注某一领域,而忽视机体作为一个整体的存在以及环境对人体的影响.本文尝试从牙周疾病的病因及诊治的角度阐述整合医学.牙周疾病的发病机制、鉴别诊断及治疗,牙周专业与其他专业的关系均需要结合整合医学的观点认识和把握.牙周专业未来的发展也需要吸收其他专业的成果.作为牙周专科医师应该具有整合医学的理念.如何在牙周病学领域实践整合医学,本文作者给出了一些思考和建议.

Medical diciplines have been gradually differentiated and specialized during its developement, and problems due to deep specialization have been increasingly apparent. Its performance is as follows： dental specialists tends to focus on a certain narrow area and ignore neither the patients as a whole existence nor the role of the environmental factors. In this article, the author tries to show the holistic integrative medicine （HIM） from the point of view of periodontal specialty. In fact, the pathogenesis, the differential diagnosis and the treatment of periodontal diseases along with the role of preventive dentistry and basic medicine for periodontology must be considered as a whole using the philosophy of HIM. The future development of periodontal specialty should absorb the achievements of other medical and dental diciplines. Periodontist should pay more attention to HIM. The author also gives some thoughts and suggestions on how to practice HIM in the field of periodontics.