Medical Problems in Dentistry - Hardcover

Scully MD PhD, Crispian; Cawson MD FDSRCS FDSRCPS(Glas) FRCPath FAAOMP, Roderick A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443101450 ISBN 13: 9780443101458

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2005

Synopsis

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 information

New 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.

About this title

About the Author

Crispian Scully is a Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Oral Health-General Health; and is emeritus Professor at UCL. He is Co-Editor of Oral Diseases, Medicina Oral, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry.

Crispian Scully is Past-President of the International Academy of Oral Oncology, European Association of Oral Medicine, British Society for Oral Medicine and British Society of Disability and Oral Health, he has served as Dean in Bristol and UCL; on the General Dental Council; on the Councils of the Royals colleges in Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on committees of NICE and CRUK, He has written and edited over 45 books, written over 150 book chapters and has over 1000 papers cited on MEDLINE. He has received the CBE, University of Helsinki Medal of Honour, University of Santiago de Compostela Medal, University of Granada Medal, Fellowship of UCL, and honorary degrees from the Universities of Athens, Granada, Helsinki and Pretoria. He has received the UK Dental Award for the Most Outstanding Achievements in Dentistry, the Awards of the Spanish Society for Oral Medicine and the Hellenic Society for Oral Medicine, and the International Award of the Spanish Society for Oral Surgery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443101450
• ISBN 13: 9780443101458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 696