Oral Medicine. Text and Evolve Ebooks Package

Description

This package provides you with the book plus the eBook giving you the printed book, plus access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of dentistry eBooks.

A practical and highly-illustrated guide to oral medicine for dental students and candidates for postgraduate dental exams.

Reviews

“Resplendent with over 250 very clear colour photographs, it serves graphically to demonstrate an array of oral conditions of which dentists should be aware….The book is suitable for dental students and dentists just starting out in their careers but it will be useful to those undertaking post-graduate exams, too.” - Bdanews. Vol 20 no 9, September 2007

Key Features

•Clearly describes and illustrates 76 oral conditions under standardized headings of clinical features, incidence, aetiology, diagnosis and management.
•Gives therapeutic protocols with associated flowcharts to correspond with the trend towards protocol-driven treatment.
•Includes diagnostic flowcharts for major symptoms such as ulcers and red lesions, placed beside clinical photos to guide the reader systematically through the diagnostic process.
•Provides step-by-step instructions on how to carry out biopsies and toluidine blue staining.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Diagnosis. Differential diagnosis by site. Differential diagnosis by signs and symptoms. Diagnostic flowcharts.
Part 2: Clinical features. Pathology.
Part 3: Therapy. Guide to the main drugs used in the treatment of oral mucosal diseases. Main drug side effects of oral and perioral localisation. Therapeutic protocols.
Part4: Biopsies and vital stains. How to perform a biopsy of the oral mucosa. How to perform a toluidine blue staining.

Author Information

By Sergio Gandolfo, MD, DDS, Professor of Clinical Dentistry, University of Turin, Italy.; Crispian Scully, CBE, MD, PhD, MDS, MRCS, FDSRCS, FDSRCPS, FFDRCSI, FDSRCSE, FRCPath, FMedSci, FHEA, FUCL, DSc, DChD, DMed (HC), Professor of Oral Medicine, Pathology and Microbiology, University of London, UK UCL-Eastman Dental Institute, and WHO Collaborating Centre for Disability, Culture and Oral Health, London, UK; Visiting Professor at Universities of Edinburgh, Helsinki, Middlesex and West of England; Honorary Consultant at University College Hospitals, London, UK; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London; St. Savvas Hospital, Athens, Greece and European Institute for Oncology, Milan, Italy and Marco Carrozzo, MD, DSM(Turin), Professor and Chair of Oral Medicine, School of Dental Sciences, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Oral Medicine Section, University of Turin, Italy