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TEXTBOOK OF GENERAL AND ORAL SURGERY
Textbook of General and Oral Surgery
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By
David Wray, MD, BDS, MB, ChB, FDSRCPS, FDSRCS(Edin), Professor of Oral Medicine, University of Glasgow, Honorary Consultant in Oral Medicine, North Glasgow University Hospitals, NHS Trust, Glasgow, UK
David Stenhouse, DDS, BDS, FDS, RCPS, Senior Lecturer in Oral Surgery, University of Glasgow, UK
David Lee, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCS(Ed), Consultant General and Endocrine Surgeon, West Lothian and Lothian University Hospitals, NHS Trust, UK
Andrew Clark, BSc(Hons), MB, ChB, MRCS(Ed), Clinical Research Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Description
This practical resource helps readers arrive at an integrated understanding of both general and oral surgery – in one convenient text. A companion to Wray: Textbook of General and Oral Medicine, it provides the basic principles of general surgery and general medicine and a more detailed knowledge of certain areas of these specialties which are related to dentistry or have an influence on the practice of dentistry.

Audience
Dental students and newly qualified dentists.

Contents


PART I: GENERAL SURGERY

A. Basic principles
1. Introduction
2. History and examination
3. Wound healing and suture materials
4. Complications of surgery
5. Fluid balance metabolism and nutrition
6. Blood disorders and their management in surgical practice
7. Cross infection control
8. Surgical sepsis
9. Fractures
10. General anaesthesia
11. Conscious sedation
B. Specialist surgical principles
12. Maxillofacial trauma
13. Orthognathic surgery
14. Salivary gland surgery
15. Plastic surgery
16. Management of facial clefts
17. Management of orofacial malignancy
18. Otorhinolaryngology (ENT surgery)
19. Neurosurgery
20. Temporomandibular joint investigation and surgery


PART II: ORAL SURGERY

21. Introduction
22. History and diagnosis
23. Basic oral surgical techniques
24. Local anaesthesia
25. Extraction techniques
26. Complications of extractions
27. Wisdom teeth
28. Cysts of the jaw
29. Periradicular surgery
30. Pre-prosthetic surgery
31. Orthodontics and surgery
32. Other surgical techniques
33. Spread and control of infection
34. Salivary gland diseases
35. Oral surgery in the medically compromised
36. Diseases of bone
37. Dental implants
38. Cryosurgery and laser surgery


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 336 pages, publication date: AUG-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07083-9
ISBN-10: 0-443-07083-0
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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