A graduate student in public health

Source text:

Oral health is a state of being free from chronic mouth and facial pain, oral and throat cancer, oral sores, birth defects such as cleft lip and palate, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay and tooth loss, and other diseases and disorders that affect the oral cavity.

Source: 

World Health Organization. (2013). Oral Health. Retrieved from World Health Organization website: http://www.who.int/topics/oral_health/en/.

Writer’s text:

Oral health is defined as a state of being free from diseases that affect oral cavity, including dental caries (World Health Organization [WHO], 2013).

Writer’s comment:

Now when I look at it I’m not exactly sure whether it’s a paraphrase or a summary. Basically the source text lists all the oral diseases. And I basically just said “diseases”. Well, this is a definition. … so I thought it’s important that I don’t change too much of the original definition. Because I’m talking about oral health, this is a very important definition. … Cause my focus will be on dental caries. It’s the same with “tooth decay”.