FM1CLINICAL METHODS IN DENTAL OFFICE: History Recording, Examination, Investigations and TherapeuticsFM2
FM3CLINICAL METHODS IN DENTAL OFFICE: History Recording, Examination, Investigations and Therapeutics
Santosh Patil BDS MDS
Reader Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Sneha Maheshwari BDS FAGE
Dental Practitioner
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Foreword Bader K Alzarea
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Clinical Methods in Dental Office: History Recording, Examination, Investigations and Therapeutics
First Edition: 2017
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FM7Foreword
Clinical Methods in Dental Office: History Recording, Examination, Investigations and Therapeutics seeks to assist dental students, dentists and dental assistants to make informed clinical decisions on the optimal examination, diagnosis and treatment plan of the patients. As active academic clinicians, we continue to seek educational formats that reconcile clinical research development with a provocative pedagogical approach on which never loses sight of those who benefit most from our service—our patients.
The lack of a comprehensive and precise book makes it difficult at undergraduate level, especially for dental students who need to know basic examination principles in general and careful history recording for accurate diagnosis and management of patients. Drs Santosh Patil and Sneha Maheshwari with tremendous effort and experience have portrayed a manual, which will be of immense help to the dental students, postgraduates and clinicians in their clinical examinations and understanding the patients’ problems in a simple manner.
I am sure that their contribution to the profession will be greatly appreciated by all professional colleagues. I wish them success in their noble but humble mission.
Bader K Alzarea
Dean
College of Dentistry
Al Jouf University
Al-Jawf
FM9Preface
Clinical Methods in Dental Office: History Recording, Examination, Investi-gations and Therapeutics is intended to provide insight into the realms of the clinical aspects of oral medicine and radiology to the student entering dental clinics for the first time. The undergraduates begin with their clinical training in the third year of the BDS curriculum, where they interact and evaluate patients for the very first time. The book will help the students in understanding the patient's orofacial complaints and the subsequent step-by-step examination of oral and paraoral structures. It will also serve as a ready-reckoner for private dental practitioners and postgraduate dental students.
The book describes history taking for regular and special cases. It also prepares and sensitizes the students to the needs of patients with certain mental and physical disabilities, individuals with underlying systemic diseases and handling of medical emergencies in the dental clinics and offices. It also contains the commonly used medications for various oral conditions, which will help students and practitioners to use it as a ready reference while prescribing drugs to the patients. Also, a chapter on the various laboratory and radiographic investigations will help the students and practitioners in formulating an accurate diagnosis by the selection of the most appropriate investigations.
It is our hope that the presentation of the fundamental basis of case history recordings, examinations, investigations and therapeutics will be useful to the students and practitioners and that it will contribute to the continuous progress of the profession.
Santosh Patil
FM11Acknowledgments
Writing Clinical Methods in Dental Office: History Recording, Examination, Investigations and Therapeutics happens to be one of the greatest achievements in our lives. We readily acknowledge our indebtedness to the many teachers, colleagues and friends with whose influence over the years, sincere and enthusiastic support, we have been able to write this book. They together with our technicians, assistants and patients, are the ones who really made this text possible. The immense knowledge and experience of all these individuals adds immeasurably to the text.
We are also grateful for the skillful and generous support from the staff at M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India, for their energy and creativity in the presentation of the content.