With its name, ''Mastication''pedia indicates that its main topic deals with '''physiopathogenesis of the Masticatory System'''. This informal definition, clear to professionals but mysterious to common people, roughly means the causes of diseases and disorders that afflict people in the apparatuses and systems that allow them to eat when chewing, especially at the beginning of food processing. ''Chewing'' (''mastication''), then, and ''pedia'', a word that comes from the ancient Greek παιδεία (''paideia''), ''education''. | With its name, ''Mastication''pedia indicates that its main topic deals with '''physiopathogenesis of the Masticatory System'''. This informal definition, clear to professionals but mysterious to common people, roughly means the causes of diseases and disorders that afflict people in the apparatuses and systems that allow them to eat when chewing, especially at the beginning of food processing. ''Chewing'' (''mastication''), then, and ''pedia'', a word that comes from the ancient Greek παιδεία (''paideia''), ''education''. |