Comprehensive Preventive Dentistry

Comprehensive Preventive Dentistry

Author: Hardy Limeback

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-04-11

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1118280202

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Comprehensive Preventive Dentistry provides one user-friendly resource that brings together information on the scientific basis and clinical practice of all aspects of preventive dentistry. This thorough and all-encompassing resource offers techniques and strategies for maintaining excellent oral health in patients through a regimen of preventive measures. Comprehensive Preventive Dentistry is grounded in a patient-centered, pre-emptive, and minimally invasive philosophy. The book begins by covering individual diseases, such as caries, periodontitis, and oral cancer, as well as therapies (sealants, fluoride) and other relevant conditions (toothwear, hypersensitivity). Additionally, concepts such as the role of diet and nutrition in oral health are discussed. Also covered are oral care products and new techological developments in caries diagnosis and risk assessment, periodontal disease and oral cancer, as well as new developments in home care products. A valuable and comprehensive companion that will appeal to dentists and dental hygienists, this helpful new book provides its readers with one authoritative resource that offers a reliable and helpful companion to practicing preventive dentistry.


Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health, An Issue of Dental Clinics

Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health, An Issue of Dental Clinics

Author: Leslie R. Halpern

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-04-28

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1455771686

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This issue of Dental Clinics features expert clinical reviews on Evidence-Based Women's Oral Health which includes current information on topics such as strategic planning for prioritizing oral health gender disparities, oral health gender disparities and systemic health, oral health gender disparities and reproductive health, oral cancer in women, risk assessment and management, tooth loss, dietary behaviors and oral health in women, enamel erosion, violence and abuse, temporomandibular joint disorder, gender differences and the aging and diseased jaw, patient-provider interactions, and pathways to assure evidence-based women’s oral health.


Contemporary Approach to Dental Caries

Contemporary Approach to Dental Caries

Author: Ming-Yu Li

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9535103059

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With an update of the recent progress in etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of caries, it may be said that the final defeat of dental caries is becoming possible soon. Based on the research in this area in recent decades, "Contemporary Approach to Dental Caries" contained the caries in general, the diagnosis of caries, caries control and prevention, the medical treatment of caries, dental caries in children and others such as secondary caries. This book provides the reader with a guide of progress on the study of dental caries. The book will appeal to dental students, educators, hygienists, therapists and dentists who wish to update their knowledge. It will make you feel reading is profitable and useful for your practice.


Journal of Prosthodontics on Complete and Removable Dentures

Journal of Prosthodontics on Complete and Removable Dentures

Author: Jonathan P. Wiens

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1119442621

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This book is a compilation of articles on complete dentures selected from the Journal of Prosthodontics with the intention of providing the reader with contemporary and relevant information on how the edentulous patient can be better served when fabricating complete dentures. Presents a curated list of the best peer-reviewed articles on complete and removable dentures from the pages of Journal of Prosthodontics Covers a wide range of treatment scenarios involving fixed and partial dentures Offers a mix of clinical reports, research articles, and reviews


Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist - E-Book

Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist - E-Book

Author: Kathy Voigt Geurink

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0323291201

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UNIQUE! Healthy People 2020 Objectives give you a competitive edge with the most up-to-date science-based guidelines for promoting health and preventing disease. New chapter on Planning a Student Community Oral Health Project helps you confidently move from the classroom into the community and apply what you've learned to improve oral health care. Content updates keep you current on timely issues such as access to care, expanded career opportunities, caries risk assessment, fluoride and sealants, social responsibility and justice, and cultural competence.


The Developing Person Through the Life Span

The Developing Person Through the Life Span

Author: Kathleen Stassen Berger

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-02-18

Total Pages: 930

ISBN-13: 1429232056

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"The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. It also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application." - product description.


Improving Oral Health for the Elderly

Improving Oral Health for the Elderly

Author: Ira B. Lamster

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-11

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0387743375

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This excellent new work confronts two important oral health policy concerns in the United States: the disparities in the oral disease burden and the inability of certain segments of the population to access oral health care. The book examines in depth this crucial yet frequently overlooked indicator of seniors’ quality of life. It provides an invaluable set of recommendations to the clinical, research, and administrative communities that will serve the elderly population.


Geriatric Dentistry, An Issue of Dental Clinics of North America

Geriatric Dentistry, An Issue of Dental Clinics of North America

Author: Lisa A. Thompson

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2014-11-22

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0323326064

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This issue of Dental Clinics, edited by Lisa A. Thompson and Leonard J. Brennan, focuses on Geriatric Dentistry. Articles include: Our Current Geriatric Population: Demographic and Oral Health Care Utilization; Physiology of Aging of Older Adults: Systemic and Oral Health Considerations; Treatment Planning Considerations in Older Adults; Oral Health Disparity in Older Adults: Dental Decay and Tooth Loss; Oral Health Disparities in Older Adults: Oral bacteria, Inflammation and Aspiration Pneumonia; Salivary Function and Xerostomia and the Implications of Polypharmacy in Elderly; Systemic and Oral Health; Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults and Oral Health considerations: Treatment and Management; Integrating Oral Health into the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Curriculum; Innovations in Dental Care Delivery for the Older Adult; and more!