From the rather sheltered academic environment of the university, the graduate dental provider is thrown into the world to deal with often difficult and sometimes worrying clinical problems. Faced with making his or her own decisions, often with minimal background experience, and building relationships with patients and professional colleagues, the transition from being a student with few responsibilities, to a qualified person can be traumatic. Enthusiasm is often at a maximum at a time when experience is limited: hopefully, the new graduate will have insight and recognize their strengths and limitations. Although a major change at this time of transition is from discussing the academic aspects of management to putting concepts into practice, documentation of the more Practical Aspects of patient management is not readily available. The person who is a resident, working in a general hospital, or who is treating medically or physically handicapped patients is often made more acutely aware of these shortcomings. There may even be more senior members of the profession who, like us, find it difficult reliably to recall data from memory, particularly with the introduction of new drugs, new units, and so on.

The object of this book is to help in these situations by presenting some of the more practical aspects of diagnosis and management, mainly in note and tabular form, primarily for staff in hospital positions. It is a relatively brief synopsis, designed as a pocket companion or aide-mémoire that should complement the basic undergraduate training. The book covers many of the areas of dentistry that overlap with, or border on, other specialties in the field of medicine and surgery, but does not attempt to duplicate all the data currently available in standard texts such as the medico-legal aspects of dentistry or details of operative techniques. Thus the text includes practical aspects of oral medicine and pathology, and oral and maxillofacial surgery, including surgery in relation to prosthetics, implantology, and orthodontics, traumatology, and relevant aspects of sedation, anaesthetics and therapeutics.

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