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Dental Trauma at a Glance
The market-leading at a Glance series is popular among students and newly qualified practitioners for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.
Each bite-sized chapter is covered in a double-page spread with clear, easy-to-follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.
Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory texts for teaching, learning and revision and are useful throughout university and beyond.
Everything you need to know about Dental Trauma ... at a Glance!
Written in a short and concise manner, Dental Trauma at a Glance is a practical reference that contains essential information on the safe and effective clinical management of acute adult dental trauma injuries.
The book addresses the numerous types of adult dental injuries and contains guidance on how the correct identification and treatment of these injuries can be time sensitive. Filled with helpful illustrations and photographs, the text is formatted in a step-by-step manner for the reader to arrive at the correct diagnosis and the most up-to-date management for safe and optimum patient care.
* Provides the most contemporary must-have information for the clinical management of acute adult dental trauma
* Its format is quick and easy to use
* Offers a highly illustrated text with quality clinical photographs to aid with learning and revision
* Provides an understanding of traumatic adult dental injuries, their healing and an insight into their longer-term sequelae
A new addition to the popular at a Glance series, Dental Trauma at a Glance is an indispensable hands-on guide for dental students and general dental practitioners.
Accompanied by a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/alani/dental_trauma featuring:
* Multiple-choice questions to aid learning
* All figures from the book as downloadable PowerPoint slides
List of contents
Foreword viii
Preface ix
About the companion website x
1 Risk factors for dental trauma 2
2 Prevention of dental trauma 4
3 Essential armamentarium 6
4 Examination of dental trauma 8
5 Infraction 10
6 Enamel fracture 12
7 Enamel-dentine fracture 14
8 Enamel-dentine-pulp fracture 16
9 Crown-root fracture 18
10 Crown-root fracture with pulp involvement 20
11 Root fracture 22
12 Alveolar process fracture 24
13 Concussion 26
14 Subluxation 28
15 Extrusive luxation 30
16 Intrusive luxation 32
17 Lateral luxation 34
18 Features of luxation injuries and principles of repositioning 36
19 Avulsion of a tooth with a closed apex 38
20 Principles of splinting 40
21 Post-operative instructions 42
22 Follow-up and splint removal 44
23 Indications for endodontic treatment 46
24 Sclerosis 48
25 Discolouration 50
26 Management of the immature root 52
27 Root resorption - external replacement 54
28 Root resorption - external cervical 56
29 Root resorption - internal inflammatory 58
30 Tooth replacement options 60
31 Autotransplantation 62
32 The role of orthodontics 64
Appendix A: Splinting times and follow up intervals for fracture and displacement injuries in the adult dentition 66
Appendix B: Management of dental trauma in the primary dentition 68
References 70
Index 7
About the author
Aws Alani, BDS MFDS MSc FDSRCS LLM is a Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics, and Endodontics, London, UK.
Gareth Calvert, BDS MFDS MSc FDS Rest Dent RCPS is a Specialist in Restorative Dentistry and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, UK.
