Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient by Donald Falace, Craig Miller, James W. Little, Nelson L. Rhodus

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Ensure your patients' health and safety! Practical guidance helps you determine the severity and stability of common medical disorders in the dental office, so you'll always know how to proceed to provide the best possible care and avoid complications. Concise, clinically focused coverage details the basic disease process for each condition, along with the incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, currently accepted medical therapies, and recommendations for specific dental management.

• Reference lists provide places where the reader can go to obtain more detailed information on the topics discussed in the chapter.
• Dental Management Summary Table synthesizes important factors for consideration in the dental management of medically compromised patients.
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health Care Settings appendix provides certified standards for infection control.
• Therapeutic Management of Common Oral Lesions appendix provides quick reference for lesions commonly encountered in dental practice.
• Drug Interactions of Significance to Dentistry appendix alerts practitioners to potential drug interactions.

• For the first time, the table of contents will be divided into parts by the category of medical condition, making it faster and easier for the dental professional to search by condition.
• Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis, Chapter 2, incorporates the latest American Heart Association guidelines to help prevent endocarditis.
• Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation, Chapter 8, discusses the systemic and oral effects of smoking and includessuggestions for encouraging smoker cessation.
• Tuberculosis, Chapter 9, clearly defines related oral complications and adverse drug effects of the disease and identifies methods for management in dental patients.
• Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders, Chapter 10, details obstructive sleep apnea and treatment options including oral appliances and surgical procedures.
• Rheumatologic and Connective Tissue Disorders, Chapter 21, discusses treatment options for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Lyme Disease, and Sjögren's Syndrome.
• Chapters 23 and 24 highlight the oral complications of both red and white blood cell disorders.
• Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders, Chapters 28 and 29, provide guidelines for managing conditions like depression, eating disorders, anxiety, and schizophrenia, and indicate proper drugs for treatment.
• Alternative Drugs Appendix provides treatment options from the growing areas of alternative and complementary medicine.

Azfar Siddiqui

This fourth edition of this book provides essential information on the dental management of patients suffering from commonly occurring medical disorders. The previous edition was published in 1988. The stated purpose of this book is to provide dental students and practitioners with basic understanding of commonly occurring medical disorders, what conditions to be aware of, and what precautions to take in the dental management of these patients. This book is aimed at students as well as practicing dentists. In my opinion this is an important topic and good understanding is essential for all dental and dental auxiliary personnel. Although this book could have benefited from some color pictures, the black-and-white illustrations are of good quality and are well conceived. The quality of the references is good in most cases but varies from chapter to chapter. The summary in the beginning of the book is excellent, providing to the point information that guides the reader toward more detail by giving page references. This is an essential book for every dentist, especially those in general practice as well as dental residents in postgraduate training. The book is written in a simple, attractive manner. Finding a particular subject is easy because of the table of contents and an elaborate index. Many up-to-date changes have been made in the new edition, especially the chapter on AIDS and infection control.

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Reviewer:Norman Tinanoff, DDS, MS (University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery)
Description:This is an update of a very popular reference on the dental management of patients with the most common medical problems that will affect dental care. The previous edition was published in 2002.
Purpose:The purpose is to give dental providers an up-to-date, concise, and factual reference for the dental management of patients with specific medical problems. This is an important goal, given the frequency with which the previous edition is used in academic settings. The book succeeds by providing detailed but concise descriptions of medical conditions, as well as how they will affect dental treatment.
Audience:The book is targeted at students, residents, practitioners in probably all dental specialties, with the possible exception of orthodontics. The authors are all respected professors in departments of oral diagnosis, microbiology, or oral medicine.
Features:Medical conditions thoroughly covered include cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and metabolic. The photographs and illustrations are of excellent quality. Unique to this book are the boxes of concise tables that give the features of the diseases and management. Shortcomings are in the area of format. The summary on dental management is confusing because each "problem" is on both sides of a page and there is no clear distinction between problems. Appendix A on dental emergencies is also not arranged so that it can be quickly referenced.
Assessment:This seventh edition is a beautifully illustrated, up-to-date,generally easy to use, and in-depth work that is most helpful to dentists who see patients with medical problems. This new edition, necessary to keep the information current, includes new sections on smoking, tuberculosis and sleep disorders.

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3 Stars from Doody

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