Main description:

Suitable for students and practitioners alike, this new edition of the now classic text - Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry - is a concise, practical and highly illustrated guide to the day-to-day management of child dental patients.

Contents:

1 Child assessment

2 Child management

3 Dental caries

4 Fluoride modalities

5 Restorative paediatric dentistry

6 Pulp therapy for primary and immature permanent teeth

7 Trauma management

8 Pediatric oral medicine and pathology

9 Dental anomalies

10 Medically compromised children

11 Orthodontic diagnosis and treatment in the mixed dentition

12 Management of cleft lip and palate

13 Speech, language and swallowing

App A Normal values in blood chemistry
App B Fluid and electrolyte balance
App C Management of anaphylaxis
App D Management of acute asthma
App E Antibiotic prophylaxis protocols for the prevention of infective endocarditis
App F Vaccination schedules
App G Isolation and exclusion from school for childhood infectious diseases
App H Somatic growth and maturity
App I Differential diagnosis of radiographic pathology in children
App J Piaget's four stages of intellectual development
App K Glasgow coma scale
App L Common drug usage in paediatric dentistry
App M Eruption dates of teeth
App N Construction of family pedigrees
App O Calculating fluoride values for dental products
App P Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws
App Q Charting form
App R Neurological observation chart