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A great book for revision and dipping into, 20 Nov 2000
By A Customer
This book boasts 491 superb photos cleverly arranged to face the accompanying text. The explanations are not long and frightening but suitably succinct. You learn the presenting signs and symptoms, histology, disease progression, treatment options and likely prognosis; ideal for exam revision and coping with clinicians. This book includes a short section on what is normal and normal variations present in the populations, which is particularly helpful especially for students who have only a limited clinical experience of what is normal. Diagrams with accompanying photos of clinical presentations and text explain diagnostic and descriptive terminology, aiding understanding of diagnoses and application of appropriate terms to clinical findings. The remaining chapters deal with the common oral diseases by anatomical landmarks (teeth, gingivae, tongue etc) and by colour changes (red, white, pigmented). Presenting and explaining conditions peculiar to the hard tissues, periodontal diseases, soft tissue lesions, benign and malignant neoplasms and oral manifestations of systemic diseases. The book includes a number of useful appendices. These include a translator for those common latin abbreviations that leave us all clueless. The quick guide to the diagnosis and management of the most common oral lesions is excellent, I just wish that within the sections diseases were listed alphabetically and thus easier to find. This book is an excellent aid to revision and includes a self assessment quiz to help with exam preparation. It is also a handy guide for clinics, although it is too large to fit in a pocket and sneak onto clinic the size has allowed a much more practical and readable text. My copy is proving invaluable and is well thumbed, the cover is a little flimsy but can be easily transformed with some sticky back plastic and a bit of Blue Peter know how. This is a book I will continue to dip into.
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Excellent dental finals revision aid, 30 Nov 2007
Just as a note, it's the first edition of this book that I've got, not the third, but I gather there have been many improvements (notably more radiographs and details concerning cysts), so all I say and more will apply.
Speaking as a final year dental student having just passed their exams, I must say this book was an absolute treasure.
I'm one that struggles with memorizing reams and reams of text, I need to visualize what's going on. Subsequently, I find the major flaw with oral medicine textbooks is that they more often or not provide only a single photograph of a 'classic' or, even worse, the most extreme presentation of a given condition. As you'll soon find, in real life, there are endless variations in how a given disease might present. The structure of most books is also such that it can be very hard to work out the differentials of for example a lip swelling. You have to read one chapter on neoplasms, another on non-neoplastic tumours and the list goes on.
This is where this book is so different, for almost every condition that one will need to know about there are an array of excellent photographs matched with text that is concise, yet remarkably thorough for such easily digestible descriptions.
It also excels in its structure, you won't find one chapter on cancer and another on non-neoplastic swellings. The condtions are instead divided according to their presentation. For example, swellings on the lip, white lesions, palatal swellings, conditions peculiar to the tongue etc. This makes learning differential diagnoses so much easier, and more importantly you'll find yourself learning in such a way that what you do learn will be so much easier to apply in real life, clinically.
Finally, the book has an excellent section on descriptive terminology (essential for vivas and presenting cases to specialists) and superb appendices detailing abbreviations, therapeutic protocols, a guide to diagnosis and management of common oral lesions (presented in a miraculously short but thorough tabulated format detailing age/sex/race/clinical characteristics and treatment for each condition), a quiz and a glossary.
Buy this book and you really won't regret it! Couple this book with 'Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine' by Cawson & Odell and 'Essentials of Dental Radiography and Radiology' by Eric Whaites and you won't find yourself wanting of any other books for your oral med/surgery/radiology exams.
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