Oral and maxillofacial medicine text: the basis of diagnosis and treatment

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.'Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, 2nd edition' continues to present the basics of the specialty in an accessible and digestible format. Avoiding excessive detail, the prize-winning book offers sound guidance on the whole range of common and potentially serious disorders that are routinely encountered in clinical practice. 'Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, 2nd edition' places a strong emphasis on practical issues with a clear 'how to' approach and easy access to information via the liberal use of artworks, tables, colour photographs, patient care pathways and chapter summary boxes.Completely revised and updated, with additional text and illustrations, this volume is ideal for senior dental students, dental practitioners and for trainees and practitioners in oralmedicine, surgery and pathology in particular. INDICE: Section I FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PATIENT MANAGEMENT Diagnosis: history; Diagnosis: examination; Diagnosis: general investigations; Treatment;Agents used in the treatment of patients with oral diseaseSection II COMMON COMPLAINTS Cervical lymphadenopathy; Drooling and sialorrhoea; Dry mouth (xerostomia); Halitosis (oral malodour); Lumps and swellings; Pain; Red, white and pigmented lesions; Sensory and motor changes and taste abnormalities; Soreness and ulcersSection III COMMON AND IMPORTANT ORAL CONDITIONSAngioedema (angioneurotic oedema); Angular cheilitis (angular stomatitis); Aphthae (recurrent aphthous stomatitis); Atypical facial pain; Behçet syndrome; Bell's palsy; Burningmouth syndrome (oral dysaesthesia); Cancer; Candidiasis; Denture-related stomatitis; Erythema migrans; Erythema multiforme; Erythroplakia, leukoplakia, keratosis and other potentially malignant lesions; Fordyce spots; Gingival drug-induced swelling; Granulomatous cheilitis; Herpesvirus infections; Lichen planus; Odontogenic cysts and tumours; Pemphigoid; Pemphigus; Salivary neoplasms; Sjögren syndrome; Temporomandibular joint pain-dysfunction syndrome; Trigeminaland other neuralgias Section IV RELEVANT OTHER SYSTEMIC DISORDERSHuman immunodeficiency virus infection; Iatrogenic disease; Oral manifestations of disorders of specific systems; Other conditionsSection V EPONYMOUS CONDITIONSEponymous conditionsAPPENDIX Adverse drug reactions

• ISBN: 978-0-7020-4168-6
• Editorial: Churchill Livingstone
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 408
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés