Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry

ISBN 10: 0723436959 / ISBN 13: 9780723436959

Published by Mosby, 2013

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00101945315

Synopsis:

Suitable for students and practitioners alike, the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry is a concise, practical and highly illustrated guide to the day-to-day management of child dental patients.

• Established as the foremost available comprehensive handbook on pediatric dentistry
• Prepared in an 'easy-to-digest' fashion - which allows for quick reference and easy reading
• Contains over 550 full colour line artworks, photographs and tables together with 'Clinical Hints' boxes to act as useful aide-mémoires
• Sets out the essentials for managing conditions such as clefting disorders, haematological and endocrine disorders, congenital cardiac disease, disorders of metabolism, organ transplantation and cancer in children as well as more familiar presentations such as dental trauma, oral infections and caries
• Detailed appendices provide the reader with information that is often difficult to find and which may be overlooked
• Designed specifically to give all practitioners confidence when managing children
• Convenient handbook size ensures that the book can be easily referred to in the clinical setting
• Endorsed by the Australasian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

• Improved layout with completely new colour illustrations
• Expanded section on sedation 
• Includes details from the most recent international guidelines
• Cases expanded to show 20 year follow-up
• New chapter on clinical and surgical techniques
• New chapter on the care of children with special needs
• Major revisions of chapters on behaviour management, restorative dentistry, management of cleft lip and palate 
• Increased section on radiographic pathology in children

About the Author: Angus Cameron completed dentistry at the University of Sydney in 1984 and began work as a junior dental officer at Westmead. He joined the Department of Paediatric Dentistry as a registrar in 1987 and was the first to complete the Master of Dental Science degree in Paediatric Dentistry in NSW in 1991. Angus was appointed a specialist in 1992 and became Head of Department in 1997. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor and Head of Paediatric Dentistry at the University of Sydney and Visiting Senior Specialist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

Angus was also appointed Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and is currently the Registrar (Special Field Streams) of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Angus is co-editor of the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry, now in its 3rd edition and translated into six languages. His major clinical interests are in the areas of paediatric oral medicine and pathology, dental anomalies and craniofacial biology.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry
Publisher: Mosby
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Edition: 4th Edition