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Provides useful clinical information to practicing physicians, medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals in aconcise, complete, and accurate manner. Covers all the subjects expected in a textbook of internal medicine as well as detailed information on pediatrics, psychiatry,obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects.

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With the significant findings from the examination process, the dentist now begins to assemble a list of diagnoses for the patient. Diagnoses are precise, scientific terms used to describe variations from normal. They can be applied to a systemic disease, such as diabetes, or a specific oral health condition, such as aggressive periodontitis. Other examples of diagnoses include occlusal caries, irreversible pulpitis, squamous cell carcinoma (SCCA), and Class II malocclusion. Often, more than one finding may be necessary to formulate a diagnosis. For example, a tooth that appears darker than the others may or may not be a significant finding. This finding, concurrent with a tooth that tests negative to electric pulp testing and the radiographic appearance of a periapical radiolucency, would strongly suggest pulpal necrosis.

This is a new edition of a classic text that presents all of the information that a dental student needs to know in order to safely capture high-quality clinical images and accurately interpret their findings. In this latest edition, both traditional methods of imaging and new modalities are included, such as cone beam CT, and the author team has been expanded to bring a fresh approach to the subject area. Written in an accessible manner which avoids unnecessary detail, each page spread has been carefully designed to ensure clarity of understanding by the reader to ensure both exam success and confidence and safety in the clinical situation. Topics address the whole curriculum and range from the physics of imaging to radiation protection and image interpretation. Suitable for undergraduate students and post-graduates alike, this book has become essential reading for all readers who intend to practice clinical dentistry.

Although the most complex and seriously ill patients may require specialists to provide their dental care, no dentist will be able to avoid treating patients with medical problems altogether, and all dentists must be prepared for them. This book, which has been thoroughly updated in the present edition, provides an excellent overview of pathophysiology and treatment of a broad range of common medical conditions that will provide the dentist with understanding of the interrelationships between patients' dental and medical care, as well as information on recommended modifications of treatment delivery. Competency in this critical and complex area of dentistry is essential to the safe and effective provision of dental care to an increasingly large part of our population. Its importance cannot be overstated.

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