This book is designed to explain to dental students the processes of diagnosis and treatment planning, through consideration of clinical cases and problems which involve aspects of all the dental specialties.56 cases in clinical dentistry are presented in a practical, problem-based approach, leading the reader toward the correct diagnosis and treatment plan.Treatment alternatives are explored and evaluated in terms of their advantages and disadvantages.Material from all the dental specialties is integrated in the cases presented, in order to cover the full range of real-world clinical problems.Color illustrations throughout bring the cases to life and clarify important concepts.Thirteen new cases and updating of existing cases.More on behavioural management of nervous and difficult patients.More on paediatric dentistry
Professor Edward Odell is an academic pathologist with interests in clinical and laboratory research.
He is a clinical lead for Viapath (previously GSTS Pathology) and Guy's and St Thomas' head and neck pathology.
He has published both undergraduate and postgraduate textbooks and is a member of the Faculty Board of the Royal College of Surgeons and national specialty adviser to the Royal College of Pathologists.
I don't usually write reviews on medical textbooks But this one is an essential for any dentist to have on their shelf, weather experienced or still a student Very accessible case presentations leaving no questions for the reader to ask