Ebook: Dental Caries: the Disease and Its Clinical Management

Dental Caries; Contents; Preface: an Editors' guide to reading the book; Contributors; Part I The disease and its diagnosis; 1 Defining the disease: an introduction; 2 Clinical appearances of caries lesions; 3 Pathology of dental caries; 4 Visual-tactile caries diagnosis; 5 Radiography for caries diagnosis; 6 Additional diagnostic measures; 7 The foundations of good diagnostic practice; Part II Clinical caries epidemiology; 8 The epidemiology of dental caries; 9 The impact of diagnostic criteria on estimates of prevalence, extent and severity of dental caries.;The second edition of Dental Caries: the Disease and its Clinical Management builds on the success of the prestigious first edition to present an unrivaled resource on cariology. The clinical thrust of the first edition is widened and strengthened to include coverage of the disease in all its variety, from eruption of the first primary tooth to the prevalent forms of the disease in older patients. The centrality of caries control and management to the dental health of all populations is further emphasized, as the book goes beyond the successful treatment of carious lesions to demonstrate the long-term consequences of the non-operative and therapeutic techniques employed.