[The creative legacy of Professor Gennady Vladimirovich Banchenko and the prospects for scientific research in the field of pathology of the oral mucosa (dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of Professor G.V. Banchenko)].

G.V. Banchenko was born on July 11, 1936. After graduating from Moscow Medical Dentistry Institute in 1959, he worked in the N.N. Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital - first as a resident of the 13th sto- sion. N.N. Burdenko - first as a resident of the 13th stomatological department, therapist and then as maxillofacial surgeon.