Oral Medicine Secrets - Edition 1 - By Stephen T. Sonis, DMD, DMSc, Robert C. Fazio, DMD and Leslie Fang, MD, PhD Elsevier Inspection Copies

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Oral Medicine Secrets,

Edition 1

By Stephen T. Sonis, DMD, DMSc, Robert C. Fazio, DMD and Leslie Fang, MD, PhD

Publication Date: 02 Jul 2002

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Using the popular question and answer format of The Secrets Series, this helpful mini reference offers practical tips, answers, and secrets from experts specializing in various areas of oral medicine. The evaluation, management, diagnosis, and treatment of various oral diseases arecovered. Topics include cardiovascular disease, bacterial endocarditis, endocrine disease, pregnancy, pulmonary disease, gastrointestinal disease, neurologic disease, diseases of the salivary glands and much more.

Chapters on oral cancer detection and management as well as the pharmacology of drugs used in dentistry are also included.

Key Features

The content of all chapters has been updated and revised

Follows question and answer format of The Secrets Series

Includes 200 illustrations depicting the various entities discussed

Serves as a useful resource for dental students and practicing dentists

Contributing authors are a diverse mix of specialists in the field of oral medicine

About the author

By Stephen T. Sonis, DMD, DMSc, Chief, Division of Dentistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Associate Professor of Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA; Associate Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Robert C. Fazio, DMD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Attending Periodontist, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; Attending Periodontist, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT and Leslie Fang, MD, PhD, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

SECTION I: Patient Assessment
1: History, Physical and Laboratory Evaluation
2: Diagnosis of Oral Disease

SECTION II: Evaluation and management of medically compromised patients
3: Evaluation and management of patients with cardiovascular disease
4: Evaluation and management of the patient at risk for bacterial endocarditis
5: Evaluation and management of the patient with endocrine disease
6: Dental considerations and management during pregnancy
7: Evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary disease
8: Evaluation and management of patients with gastrointestinal disease
9: Evaluation and management of the patient with hematologic disease
10: Dental considerations and management in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy
11: Evaluation and management of patients with joint disease
12: Evaluation and management of patients with renal dysfunction
13: Oral manifestations of HIV infection and dental management of infected patients
14: Evaluation and management of patients with neurologic diseases
15: Evaluation and management of the patient with psychiatric disease

SECTION III: Diagnosis and treatment of oral disease
16: Evaluation and management of oral mucosal diseases
17: Oral cancer detection and management
18: Diseases of the salivary glands
19: Evaluation and management of oral infections
20: Evaluation and management of orofacial pain disorders
21: Pharmacology of drugs used in dentistry

ISBN: 9781560534198

Page Count: 320

Illustrations : 150 ills.

Retail Price : £35.99

Sonis: Dental Secrets, 2^nd ed., 1-56053-300-5, 1999, $39.00
Abubaker: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets, 1-56053-401-X, 2001, $39.00
Sonis: The Best of Dental Humor, 1-56053-067-7, 1997, $27.95

Dental Students, Medical Students, Practitioners, Periodontists, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

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