Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry

A concise, practical and highly-illustrated guide to the management of child patients for dental students and general dental practitioners.

• Concise presentation addresses the management of all common dental conditions seen in children, including children with special needs.
• Over 200 color illustrations facilitate the diagnosis of dental abnormalities.
• Essential, practical information is presented in a highly accessible and useful format.
• The convenient handbook size ensures that the book can be easily referred to in the clinical setting.

First chapter on child management to be divided into two - one on assessment and one on pain control, with more emphasis on local anaesthesia, sedation and general anaesthesia.

Chapters on restorative dentistry and orthodontics rewritten

General updating throughout

Size will remain more or less the same to ensure that the book is still an acessible, practical handbook.

Angus Cameron completed dentistry at the University of Sydney in 1984 and began work as a junior dental officer at Westmead. He joined the Department of Paediatric Dentistry as a registrar in 1987 and was the first to complete the Master of Dental Science degree in Paediatric Dentistry in NSW in 1991. Angus was appointed a specialist in 1992 and became Head of Department in 1997. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor and Head of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Sydney and Visiting Senior Specialist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Angus was also appointed Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and is currently the Registrar (Special Field Streams) of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Angus is co-editor of the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry, now in its 3rd edition and translated into six languages. His major clinical interests are in the areas of paediatric oral medicine and pathology, dental anomalies and craniofacial biology.