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DENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THE MEDICALLY COMPROMISED PATIENT
Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient
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Seventh Edition

By
James Little, DMD, MS, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry-Minneapolis, MN
Donald Falace, DMD, University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Science, Lexington, KY
Craig Miller, DMD, MS, University of Kentucky, Department of Oral Health Science, College of Dentistry, Lexington, KY, USA
Nelson Rhodus, DMD, MPH, Morse Distinguished Professor and Director, Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis and Oral Radiology, University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry and College of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN

Description
Ensure your patients' health and safety! Practical guidance helps you determine the severity and stability of common medical disorders in the dental office, so you'll always know how to proceed to provide the best possible care and avoid complications. Concise, clinically focused coverage details the basic disease process for each condition, along with the incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, currently accepted medical therapies, and recommendations for specific dental management.


Contents


Part 1: Evaluation and Risk Assessment


1. Physical Evaluation and Risk Assessment



Part 2: Cardiovascular Disease


2. Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis

3. Hyertension

4. Ischemic Heart Disease

5. Cardiac Arrhythmias

6. Heart Failure



Part 3: Pulmonary Disease


7. Pulmonary Disease

8. Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation

9. Tuberculosis

10. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders



Part 4: Gastrointestinal Disease


11. Liver Disease

12. GI Disease



Part 5: Genitourinary Disease


13. Chronic Renal Failure and Dialysis

14. Sexually Transmitted Diseases



Part 6: Endocrine and Metabolic Disease


15. Diabetes Mellitus

16. Adrenal Insufficiency

17. Thyroid Disease

18. Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding



Part 7: Immunologic Disease


19. AIDS, HIV infection, and Related Conditions

20. Allergy

21. Rheumatologic and Connective Tissue Disorders

22. Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation



Part 8: Hematologic and Oncologic Disease


23. Disorders of Red Blood Cells

24. Disorders of White Blood Cells

25. Bleeding Disorders

26. Cancer and the Oral Care of the Patient



Part 9: Neurologic, Behavioral, and Psychiatric Disorders


27. Neurological Disorders

28. Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders (Anxiety, Delirium, and Eating Disorders)

29. Psychiatric Disorders

30. Dental Management of Older Adults



Appendix


A. Guidelines for Infection Control In Dental Health Care Settings?2003

B. Therapeutic Management of Common Oral Lesions

C. Drug Interactions of Significance to Dentistry

D. Complementary Medicines and Dentistry

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 704 pages, publication date: JUL-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-04535-3
ISBN-10: 0-323-04535-9
Imprint: MOSBY


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