dental procedures include prophylaxis

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Current: A specific healthcare activity that is performed on a dental patient 
for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

"specific" doesn't add anything - remove.

Move editor note -> curator note (difference is that the former should be of 
use to a consumer of the ontology)

Does therapeutic include prophylactic? 

Is counseling a patient about brushing their teeth considered a dental 
procedure? If so add as example of usage. If not what differentiates it? If not 
then we can't have it be the sole kind of realization of the role, as certainly 
this kind of counseling is a realization also. Moreover diagnostic process and 
dental procedure , in OHD, are disjoint, and performing a dental clinical 
assessment while certainly a realization of the role, is excluded because the 
role is defined as being realized by a dental procedure.

If we have a partition of what the kinds of dental procedures are, at the level 
they are described in the definition, then we should consider making the union 
of them be the realization of the dental health care provider role.

I'm afraid that dental health care provider role and dental procedure together 
are circular. Each is defined effectively in terms of the other and little else.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2014 at 9:48

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 I would not consider a prophylactic procedure as therapeutic. "Therapy (often abbreviated tx or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, ... ".  prophylaxis are things that try to avoid or mitigate a health problem altogether.

Original comment by titus.sc...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2015 at 1:58

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See for example 
http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/dental_disorders/periodontal_disorders/
gingivitis.html

"Treatment
Regular oral hygiene and professional cleaning"

Original comment by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2015 at 6:25

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We often call "professional cleaning" "prophylaxis" but in this case the real 
world has it wrong. If you have periodontal disease, then by all means 
professional cleaning as part of the therapy. Prophylaxis, however, by its 
definition, is about preventing disease before it has occurred.

Original comment by titus.sc...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2015 at 1:28