Churchill's Pocketbooks Clinical Dentistry

Description

The new edition of this highly successful pocketbook offers readers with the essentials of clinical dentistry in quick reference format.
Fully updated and now in full colour throughout, Churchill's Pocketbook of Clinical Dentistry 4e includes a wealth of useful, clinically relevant information, accompanied by an extensive artwork programme, colour coded treatment algorithms, tables and 'pull out' boxes, as well as quick reference guides to normal values.

Authored by a team of experienced clinicians and teachers from individual specialities, Churchill's Pocketbook of Clinical Dentistry 4e will be ideal for all dental students, and newly qualified dental practitioners, both from within the UK and worldwide.

Key Features

• Places emphasis on information of practical clinical significance to maximise usefulness by the chairside!
• Authored by a team of experienced clinicians and teachers to ensure the most accurate and current information is provided for a given topic
• Quick reference format makes revision and learning easy
• Exclamation mark icon draws attention to important points and likely pitfalls for the inexperienced practitioner
• Improved page design and reorganised content make the book easy to use and navigate
• Tailored to meet current examination requirements
• Ideal for use as an aide-memoire prior to carrying out clinical tasks or to enable readers to apprise themselves of important details prior to tutorials and seminars
• Perfect for dental students at both the undergraduate and post-graduate level

New to this Edition

• Updated page design and reordered content to make navigation easier
• In full colour throughout
• Updated chapter on law, ethics and quality dental care
• Includes advances in restorative, implant and aesthetic dentistry
• Additional chapters on the dental team and on practice management
• New chapters on public health in dentistry and on special care dentistry
• Updated guidance on emergencies

Contents

1. Dental public health, epidemiology and prevention
2. Social and psychological aspects of dental care
3. Dental disease
4. The dental team
5. Law, ethics and quality dental care
6. Practice management
7. History and examination
8. Dental radiology
9. Pain and anxiety management
10. Drug prescribing and therapeutics
11. Dental materials
12. Implantology
13. Oral medicine
14. Oral and maxillofacial surgery
15. Orthodontics
16. Paediatric dentistry
17. Periodontology
18. Removable prosthodontics
19. Operative dentistry
20. Special care dentistry
21. Medical emergencies

Author

By Crispian Scully, CBE, MD, PhD, MDS, MRCS, BSc, FDSRCS, FDSRCPS, FFDRCSI, FDSRCSE, FRCPath, FMedSci, FHEA, FUCL, FSB, DSc, DChD, DMed (HC), Dr.hc , Director: WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health-General Health; King James IV Professor Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh); Emeritus Professor: UCL (London) and Visiting Professor; Universities of Athens, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and Plymouth