[Prevention in the broad sense of buccofacial cancer in Africa]. / Pour une prévention "au sens large" des cancers bucco-faciaux en Afrique.

Buccofacial cancers are of Public Health concern in Africa. In order to set up an effective control of the disease, the only advisable strategy will be to focus all the Public Health programs on the prevention concept. For that purpose the author considers the following factors: --the early diagnosis by non-medical staff of carcinoma of mouth cavity and Burkitt's lymphoma. --the earlier management of the patients through an improved medical attendance. --the prevention of the recurrent cases by a regular monitoring of the treated patients.

Dental education in Sénégal.

At the present time Senegal has two types of dental education: a full university training for dentists and a training programme for operating dental auxiliaries. The teaching objectives of the Institute of Dentistry and Stomatology were defined in such a way that these two grades work together in a public health team trained in accordance with the general principles of a common education in preventive and social dentistry. This dental education system which has received the full support of WHO and is backed by the educational and hess in all the African countries which send students for training in Dakar. This success is undoubtedly due to the fact that the system is designed to train personnel adapted to the special problems found in Africa, with a realistic approach to local conditions, and capable of providing effective help for the African communities whose dental health needs have for too long been neglected.

[Histological study of the voluntary traumatic inclusion of a foreign body in the gingival mucosa]. / Etude histologique de l'inclusion traumatique volontaire d'un corps étranger dans la muqueuse gingivale

First histological features of traditional tattooing of gingival mucosae using smoke-black are reported. They show the complete tolerance of connective tissue. The microscopic examination occurs several weeks or months after the tattoo was done. Thus, one can notice that carbon particles localize particularly around blood vessels (small arteries), and that never arises inflammatory reaction of any type.