Book description
Many diseases can have an impact upon oral health and/or the safe
delivery of dental care. Consequently, oral health care providers need
to be comfortable with assessing the risk of providing dental care to
their patients with systemic disease as well as the evaluation of oral
conditions that may represent manifestations or consequences of
systemic disease. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical
Dentistry aims to enable the dental practitioner to comfortably
and capably assess when medical conditions may impact dental care and
diagnose oral conditions using routine testing modalities.
This clinical guide contains succinct and detailed text with visual aids
regarding how to obtain and perform diagnostic tests, how to interpret
these tests, and the implications of tests results upon the management
of medically complex dental patients and patients with oral conditions.
Color photographs show conditions, testing equipment, and test results.
An appendix highlights the ten most common oral medicine disorders
encountered in dental practice.
Dena Fischer, DDS, MSD, MS, is Assistant Professor, Oral
Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Dentistry.
Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc, is Assistant Professor,
Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, at the Harvard
School of Dental Medicine and is Associate Surgeon at Brigham and
Women's Hospital in Boston.
Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH, FDS, RCSEd, is Associate Professor,
Department of Oral Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Dental Medicine and Attending Physician at the Division of Oral
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia.
