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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 sedationB. 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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