Oral and craniomaxillofacial syndromes and disorders: the person behind the name

Objectives: A syndrome is a correlated set of medical signs and symptoms. This study seeks to develop a nonexhaustive list of biographies of medical eponym. Researchers who originally described and named oral and craniomaxillofacial syndromes and disorders have contributed widely used figures. Methods: The authors searched Pubmed for names of researchers in quotation marks, one by one. Two websites, a medical name dictionary and a free encyclopedia were taken over to expand the author´s data. The original work and the year of publication were communicated to each author. Results: A list of 20 biographies was compiled that were relevant to 18 distinct oral and craniomaxillofacial syndromes or disorders was compiled and sorted by year of publication. Conclusions: The use of medical names is not necessary for anatomical applications alone. Syndromes and disorders are better communicated when medical eponyms are used. The authors believe that namesake on this topic will not stop being used.