Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

This full colour, simple, interesting and easy to understand textbook introduces the novice dental student to the many oral disease processes. For the practising specialist and general dentist it provides a review of processes fundamental to clinical problems and an understanding of recent developments and changing concepts. The chapters are organised to coincide with the more recent trends in dental education where students are seeing patients earlier and therefore requiring immediate knowledge of some of the more common and less complicated aspects of oral pathology. To accommodate this trend the subjects that are less difficult conceptually and require fewer prerequisites science courses are in the earlier chapters with more complex topics to be found in later chapters. Each chapter includes an outline of the topics, an introduction to the disease processes, followed by a thorough discussion of the common disorders, organised by aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical and radiographic features, histopathology, differential diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Each chapter concludes with a short bibliography of the most recent and pertinent review articles and classic publications.