Masticationpedia:Qui nous sommes
Masticationpedia est composée d'un groupe de médecins, dentistes et autres professionnels tels que des ingénieurs, des mathématiciens ou des physiciens qui, après une vie passée dans le professionnalisme et la recherche scientifique, ont développé l'idée de transférer une partie de leurs connaissances et expérience à l'humanité. Ils cherchent à stimuler de nouvelles recherches et à encourager de nouvelles études grâce à l'un des outils de communication les plus sensationnels et démocratiques du siècle dernier: le web.
We approach the web not after reaching the end of a long journey, but with the spirit of starting a new one. We believe it will not be a short one and it will encourage dialectic of research, scholarly collaborations, and dissemination of knowledge that anyone can freely benefit from.
We do not bring a finished and pre-packaged scientific product online. We humbly offer a starting point, which has been built for a long time, for the development of new scientific knowledge and the growth of the discipline. We have chosen the web for the purpose, as it has proved to be most successful in collaboration and cooperation through open and transparent public discussions.
Pour cette raison, Masticationpedia est une Communauté Scientifique qui fait face à de grandes tâches.
Masticationpedia is the site of the Charity, a non-profit (and non-governmental) entity under British law, which assumes all the organizational and logistical functions.
The Charity lives and feeds on the voluntary support of participants and donors. Masticationpedia does not receive funds, grants, or any other kind of help from public and/or government agencies either as a site or as a charity. It only admits donations from companies (machinery manufacturers, for the most part) as ethical sponsorships and these are duly mentioned, and also linked to the companies concerned if required, irrespective of donations from members No sponsor is allowed to influence the contents of Masticationpedia and no information appears differently depending on which company is mentioned in an article.
Actually, we would like individual spontaneous donations to prevail and indeed become our typical and perhaps exclusive form of financing in the best interests of free knowledge projects. You too can help us achieve this, right now.
With its name, Masticationpedia 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.
We want to learn about mastication, we would like to be helpful to those who intend to learn, or to deepen their knowledge on mastication. There is a lot of research and knowledge that people deserve to know before they open their mouths, or as scientists, before they take a look at the patient's mouth.
Cependant, la physiopathogenèse que nous examinons, comme vous le verrez plus loin dans la lecture, implique une myriade de sujets complexes et interdisciplinaires, que nous avons appelés professionnels et universitaires de différentes disciplines pour décrire. Pour cette raison, des interventions apparaîtront par des mathématiciens et des ingénieurs, ainsi que (plus fréquemment) d'autres interventions par des médecins, travaillant dans des disciplines autres que la dentisterie.
Dentists are no more the exclusive custodians of the "secrets" of this matter: to better understand the phenomena we observe, it proved to be more useful (and more logical) to broaden the range of possible points of view. It will not be surprising, therefore, that elements of philosophy may emerge here and there; in fact, there is no science that can refrain from asking questions and reflecting, from time to time, on human beings in all their depth and complexity. No MD can can consider himself/herself exempted. Not even for mastication.
Masticationpedia can be read in different ways, however it has a mission and intends to pursue it with its maximum commitment, with maximum transparency. With the widest openness.
particularly focusing on the field of the neurophysiology of the masticatory system