A new millennium means new technology and new challenges.

So the time has come to update the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry. In fact the pace of change is such that all chapters in this new edition have been completely revised. To continue the analogy of earlier prefaces: our teenager is keen on exploring new avenues, so we are going to indulge this by expanding our horizons into new attitudes and technology with a section on Dentistry and the World Wide Web, and also a section on web-based learning. This new, twenty-first century edition has the added bonus of colour plates and more diagrams to aid understanding.

We are, as ever, indebted to contributors past and present. The new recruits bring both knowledge and enthusiasm to their areas of expertise as well as to the book as a whole, and build on the work of previous contributors. To all we are greatly indebted. The ultimate responsibility for errors or oversights remains, as always, ours.

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