Prepared by an author of international renown, Scully's Handbook of Medical Problems in Dentistry offers a wealth of information in a handy easy-to-carry format. Containing over 250 colour photographs, artworks and tables, many of which have never been published before, this useful guide covers the main conditions seen in clinical practice together with their relevance to oral health care. - Highlights the main points of human diseases and their relevance to oral healthcare in a practical way - Gives particular focus on areas that are of major concern to dentistry and oral healthcare e.g. allergies, bleeding tendencies, endocrine disorders - especially diabetes - gravid patients, hepatitis and other transmissible diseases, and malignant disease - Explains the process of risk assessment, pain and anxiety control, patient access and positioning, treatment modification and drug use - 'Relevance for Dentistry' boxes highlight the most crucial aspects of specific conditions - Contains new national and international guidelines, further reading and up-to-date websites - More than meets the needs of the UK General Dental Council (GDC) document 'Preparing for practice; Dental team learning outcomes for registration'. - Ideal for all dental students, general dental practitioners and hospital-based dentists together with other oral healthcare staff who need to keep up to date with medical knowledge

This text offers an authoritative account of general medical and surgical conditions as they apply to the practice of dentistry and oral healthcare. Now established as the standard reference on the subject, Medical Problems in Dentistry is essential for students learning for the first time or practitioners needing to keep up-to-date with their knowledge. In this 6th edition, the content has been rewritten and refocused to place even stronger emphasis on the medical problems that directly influence dental practice. All content has been reviewed by a specialist Advisory Board to ensure complete accuracy and currency of information. Addition of many new images, 'key points boxes' and increased alphabetisation of entries further serve to make the book even easier to use and more relevant than ever.Additional features include:•New coverage of key areas of development in medicine including auto-inflammatory disorders, biological response modifiers, craniofacial transplantation, drug reactions, drug-resistant microbial infections, osteonecrosis and immune reconstitution syndrome•New chapters on alternative and complementary medicine, health promotion, men's issues and occupational health•New international and national guidelines, recent references and up-to-date websitesMedical Problems in Dentistry 6th edition is ideal for the whole dental team: students, general practitioners, hospital-based staff and candidates for postgraduate exams. - Detailed coverage outlines the complete relevance of systemic diseases and their treatment to dentistry – essential knowledge for the whole dental team - User-friendly format allows ease of access to information whether for exam revision purposes or for a specific issue confronting staff in a busy clinical environment - Clearly written with excellent use of illustrations, the book is an essential, easy to use, reliable source of information - Text completely updated and re-organised to increase focus on the more dentally-relevant aspects of medicine and subject areas that have undergone recent change - Entries more fully alphabetized to improve access to information - Accompanying 'key points boxes' highlight the most crucial aspects of specific medical conditions - Content peer-reviewed by a specialist Advisory Board to ensure accuracy of information and the inclusion of the latest advances - Additional coverage of autoinflammatory disorders, biological response modifiers, craniofacial transplantation, drug reactions, drug-resistant microbial infections, osteonecrosis, and immune reconstitution syndrome - Completely new entries such as alternative and complementary medicine, health promotion, men's issues and occupational health - New national and international guidelines, selected recent references and up-to-date websites

The latest edition of the ever popular Scully's Medical Problems in Dentistry has been developed to enable all dental practitioners to understand and successfully manage the increasingly complex interface between medicine and dentistry --

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One of the most comprehensive illustrated coverages available, this book is a guide to the diagnosis and management of diseases of the oral mucosa, gingivae, teeth, salivary glands, bones, and joints, and also demonstrates the relation of medical disorders to oral disease, with new expanded material on maxillofacial diseases.

Developmental Defects of the Teeth. Dental Caries. Pulpitis. Apical Periodontitis. Resorption and Hypercementosis. Periodontal Disease. Cysts of the Jaws. Odontogenic Tumours. Nonodontogenic Tumours of Bone. Non-Neoplastic Bone Diseases. Infective Stomatitis. Non-Infective Stomatitis /Keratoses (Leukoplakias, White Lesions). Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Hyperplastic Lesions. Benign Connective Tissue Tumours. Sarcomas. Lymphomas. Pigmented Lesions. Miscellaneous Tumour-Like Lesions. Salivary Gland Tumours. Salivary Gland Cysts and Chronic Non-Specific Sialadenitis. Granulomatous Diseases. Miscellaneous Fibrotic Conditions. HIV Infection and AIDS. Index.