Risk assessment and oral diagnostics in clinical dentistry /

• Main Author: Fischer, Dena Joi
• Other Authors: Treister, Nathaniel S., Pinto, Andrés
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Ames, Iowa ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, [2013]
• Subjects: Mouth > Diseases > Diagnosis.; Dentistry.; Risk assessment.; Dentistry > Methods.; MEDICAL > Dentistry > Dental Hygiene.; Mouth Diseases > diagnosis.; Risk Adjustment.; Electronic books.

Many diseases can have an impact upon oral health and/or the safe delivery of dental care. Consequently, oral health care providers need to be comfortable with assessing the risk of providing dental care to their patients with systemic disease as well as the evaluation of oral conditions that may re...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of the health history, physical examination & clinical investigations
• Basic tests and evaluation methods of systemic health
• Potential for bleeding
• Potential for infection
• Potential for poor wound healing
• Dental caries and periodontal conditions
• Oral infection
• Salivary conditions
• Oral neoplastic disease
• Oral complications associated with cancer therapy
• Oral manifestations of autoimmune, immune-mediated and allergic conditions
• Orofacial pain conditions.