Principles and Practice of Oral Medicine

by Stephen T. Sonis, Stephen T. Sonis DMD DMSc, Leslie Fang MD PhD, et al.

The new edition shows dental care professionals when and how to treat medically compromised patients, including those with mycocardial infarction, diabetes and atherosclerosis. Each concise, fact-filled chapter looks at one of more than 30 diseases, offering general medical information, advice on evaluation and treatment, discussions on oral findings, case studies and summaries. Readers will see how to:
- conduct an accurate patient assessment, so they can identify the disorder immediately and take appropriate management measures
- evaluate the illness to determine whether the patient is medically capable of and receptive to necessary dental treatment
- anticipate a patient's reaction to a particular drug
- perform procedures safely and effectively on virtually any special patient.Tables at the end of each chapter summarise important points, giving readers at-a-glance access to key data.The basics of diagnosis and management are emphasised to ensure competency when managing oral diseases or oral manifestations of systemic diseases.
Therapeutic procedures are categorised by risk level to help readers make smart care decisions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721684491
• ISBN13: 9780721684499
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

quick and easy reference book

This a very good reference book for the professionals and students. Easy to follow up special considerations for patients with systemic diseases. Each chapters gives a brief basic information on the systemic problem with Q & A examples. At the end of every chapter there are series of tables that catagorizes dental treatments and special considerations. The book is also very usefull for teaching purposes.