Medical Problems in Dentistry

By Crispian Scully, Roderick A. Cawson, Crispian M. Scully, et al.

Book Overview

A comprehensive and authoritative account of general medicine as it applies to the practice of dentistry.Detailed coverage outlines the relevance of systemic diseases and their treatment for dentistry - essential knowledge for all dentists.Content provides the dentist with sufficient background knowledge about systemic diseases and their management, making their complex effects easier to understand.Unique material on special needs dentistry presents especially relevant subject matter on this growing specialized area.More comprehensive and complete.Much brighter page design - now in colour throughout.Text now makes much more use of bullet points for easy access to informationNew section on signs and symptoms, and coverage of refugees and other special groups, lifestyle issues, Preventive medicine, complementary medicine, prion diseases, womens' health and emerging infections.Strengthening of those areas of particular concern to dental staff, such as bleeding tendencies, cardiac disease, diabetes, drug use, hepatitis and other transmissible diseases and malignant disease.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443101450
• ISBN13: 9780443101458
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 1.3" x 8.8"