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The field of oral pathology is challenging for even the most highly trained pathologists. Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Oral Pathology, 3rd Edition, covers the full histologic range of presentation of oral disease, serving as a handy bench manual for the practicing pathologist signing out cases in the oral mucosa, salivary glands, and jawbones. Dr. Sook-Bin Woo, board certified in both oral pathology and oral medicine, draws on her extensive clinical experience to help you achieve diagnostic certainty for even the most complex lesions.

• Features 1,600 high-quality, full-color illustrations that capture the characteristic presentation of all types of neoplastic, dysplastic, and benign mucosal disease
• Provides the information you need to understand the clinical implications of the disease as it relates to prognosis and treatment
• Contains extensive details of pathologic features, with descriptions of the macroscopic features, microscopic findings, and as needed, ancillary studies
• Incorporates the latest TNM staging and WHO classification systems, as well as new diagnostic biomarkers and their utility in differential diagnosis, newly described variants, and new histologic entities
• Includes relevant data from ancillary techniques (cytogenetics and molecular genetics), giving you the necessary tools required to master the latest breakthroughs in diagnostic technology
• Provides you with all of the necessary diagnostic tools to make a complete and accurate pathologic report, including clinicopathologic background throughout
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Dr. Sook-Bin Woo is a professor in the Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity (OMII). She has been a professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2008.

Woo graduated with a BDS from Singapore University in 1980 and worked as a general dentist and oral and maxillofacial surgery resident before moving to the United States. She received her MS in oral pathology from Indiana University in 1984 and completed a fellowship in head and neck pathology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 1986. She then obtained her DMD from HSDM and further training in oral and maxillofacial pathology, earning her MMSc degree in 1991. She became board-certified in oral and maxillofacial pathology in 1991.

Woo became board-certified in oral medicine in 2003 and sees patients in consultation at the Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Woo has served on the Fellowship Committee and Executive Council of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and on the board of the American Academy of Oral Medicine, where she was president from 2014 to 2015. She has published numerous scholarly papers and book chapters, and authored an atlas of oral pathology (now in its second edition). She is a reviewer for many journals and a sought-after speaker at national and international conferences. Woo has received the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health from 1988 to 1991, and the American Cancer Society Career Development Award from 1994 to 1997, among other honors. In 2012, she received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award from HSDM.