diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
index 088a0b609d..a22e361ff3 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/OracleDialect.java
@@ -737,11 +737,14 @@ public class OracleDialect extends Dialect {
 					// range of values of a NUMBER(3,0) or NUMBER(5,0) just
 					// doesn't really match naturally.
 					if ( precision <= 10 ) {
-						// A NUMBER(10,0) might not fit in a 32-bit integer,
+						// We map INTEGER to NUMBER(10,0), so we should also
+						// map NUMBER(10,0) back to INTEGER. (In principle,
+						// a NUMBER(10,0) might not fit in a 32-bit integer,
 						// but it's still pretty safe to use INTEGER here,
-						// since we can assume the most likely reason to find
-						// a column of type NUMBER(10,0) in an Oracle database
-						// is that it's intended to store an integer.
+						// since we can safely assume that the most likely
+						// reason to find a column of type NUMBER(10,0) in
+						// an Oracle database is that it's intended to store
+						// an integer.)
 						return jdbcTypeRegistry.getDescriptor( INTEGER );
 					}
 					else if ( precision <= 19 ) {