The ADA Practical Guide to Soft Tissue Oral Disease

The ADA Practical Guide to Soft Tissue Oral Disease is the perfect tool to aid in identifying, diagnosing and treating soft tissue oral disease in everyday clinical practice. Focusing on the clinical aspects of management required by the general dental team, this book expertly guides readers through screening examinations, description and documentation, differential diagnosis, and guidelines for observation and referral.

Ideal as a clinical handbook or review guide, The ADA Practical Guide to Soft Tissue Oral Disease is replete with color photos, case studies and discussion, and synopses of best current treatments based on up-to-date literature. Section 1 includes basic information of how to most effectively and efficiently perform a complete and thorough head and neck soft tissue screening examination. Section 2 presents an overview of the top 40 oral soft tissue lesions, as well as several less common but life-threatening conditions such as oral cancer and infections. Section 3 is composed of a series of brief patient clinical scenarios with diagnostic exercises for self-test and evaluation by providing discussion of the correct diagnosis and distractors.

Michael A. Kahn, DDS, is Chairman and tenured Professorof the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, OralMedicine and Craniofacial Pain, at Tufts University School ofDental Medicine. He also serves as Laboratory Director of TuftsOral Pathology Services and maintains a clinical intramuralpractice. He has authored more than 60 articles in professionaljournals and actively lectures nationally. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and aDiplomate and Director of the American Board of Oral andMaxillofacial Pathology. Dr. Kahn is also a Past-President of theAmerican Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology.

J. Michael Hall, DDS, MABMH, is Associate Professor inthe Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Medicine,and Craniofacial Pain at Tufts University School of Dental Medicineand Director of the Department's Division of Oral and MaxillofacialPathology. Dr. Hall has published in the medical and dentalpeer?]reviewed literature on a variety of pathology subjects with aspecial interest in intrabony tumors of the jaws. He has also givennumerous invited lectures and presentations at conferencesnationally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and a Diplomate of theAmerican Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology