Handbook of Oral Diseases for Medical Practice

Description

The Handbook of Oral Diseases for Medical Practice, part of the Oxford Clinical Practice Series, is a comprehensive handbook for medical students, medical practitioners and other healthcare providers. The handbook has contributions from several international experts and adopts symptom- and disease-oriented approaches. It covers a wide range of topics, such as orofacial pain syndromes, common tooth- and gum-related diseases, oral mucosal white patches, blisters, ulcers, wart-like lesions and soft tissue lumps and swellings, dental trauma, oral soft and hard tissue infections, jaw cysts, tumours and tumour-like lesions, oral health in pregnancy, oral manifestations of systemic diseases including HIV/AIDS, dental sleep medicine and potentially malignant and life-threatening malignant oral lesions. The book is supplemented with more than 150 clinical images. It is designed in a bulleted format for a quick and easy reference, and each clinical condition is organised into definition, cause, clinical features, diagnoses and management.

About the Editor

S. R. Prabhu, BDS, MDS, FDS RCS (Edin), FDS RCS (Eng), FDS RCPS (Glasg), FFD RCS Ire (Oral Med), M O Med RCS (Edin), FFGDP RCS (U.K.), FICD School of Dentistry and Health Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia, and Adjunct Visiting Professor, Manipal University, India Formerly at dental schools in Manipal, Nairobi, Khartoum, Adelaide, Trinidad and Tobago, Kuala Lumpur, Riyadh and Ras Al Khaimah

Table of contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Editor and Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I Basic diagnostic approaches
Chapter 1 Examination of the mouth and the teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 2 Diagnostic approaches to common oral and dental symptoms
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 3 Anatomical variants and normal structures often mistaken as pathological lesions
S. R. Prabhu
Part II Presenting complaints related to the teeth, jaws and temporomandibular joint
Chapter 4 Orofacial pain of dental origin
A. Sadr, S. Manickam and S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 5 Orofacial pain of nondental origin
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 6 Dental caries
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 7 Abnormal tooth wear
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 8 Developmentally missing teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 9 Extra number of teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 10 Alterations in the size and shape of teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 11 Alterations in the structure of teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 12 Delay and failure of tooth eruption
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 13 Tooth impactions
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 14 Tooth discolourations
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 15 Abnormal mobility of the permanent teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 16 Malocclusion and crowding of teeth
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 17 Orofacial infections of dental origin
S. R. Prabhu and H. Al Bayaty
Chapter 18 Temporomandibular joint disorders
S. R. Prabhu
Part III Presenting complaints related to the gums, oral mucosa and oral environment
Chapter 19 Gingival and oral soft tissue lumps and swellings
S. R. Prabhu and D. F. Wilson
Chapter 20 Gingival, oral and postextraction bleeding
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 21 Mucosal white lesions
S. R. Prabhu and D. H. Felix
Chapter 22 Mucosal blisters, erosions and ulcers
S. R. Prabhu and D. H. Felix
Chapter 23 Mucosal red lesions
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 24 Mucosal pigmented lesions
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 25 Mucosal warts and wart-like lesions
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 26 Oral malodour
N. Narayana
Chapter 27 Dry mouth and taste disorders
S. R. Prabhu and N. Narayana
Chapter 28 Oral mucosal burning and burning mouth syndrome
S. R. Prabhu and N. Narayana
Chapter 29 Facial palsy and facial sensory loss
S. R. Prabhu
Part IV Topics of special relevance
Chapter 30 Oral and dental trauma
P. V. Abbott
Chapter 31 Oral mucosal infections
L. Samaranayake, H. M. H. N. Bandara and S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 32 Cysts, tumours and tumour-like growths of the jaws
S. R. Prabhu and D. F. Wilson
Chapter 33 Oral manifestations of systemic diseases
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 34 Drug-induced oral adverse reactions, including medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw
S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 35 Oral health in pregnancy
S. C. Yeoh
Chapter 36 Dental sleep medicine: Sleep bruxism and oral appliance therapy for snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea
R. Balasubramaniam
Chapter 37 Oral lesions in HIV infection
J. Hill and S. R. Prabhu
Chapter 38 Oral potentially malignant disorders I: Leukoplakia and erythroplakia
S. Warnakulasuriya
Chapter 39 Oral potentially malignant disorders II: Oral lichen planus, oral lichenoid lesions, oral graft-versus-host disease and oral submucous fibrosis
K. Thongprasom, V. G. A. Suter and S. Warnakulasuriya
Chapter 40 Oral carcinoma and other malignant lesions of the mouth and jaws
N. W. Johnson
Chapter 41 Oral complications of cancer therapy
S. R. Prabhu
Index