Special Care Dentistry, An Issue of Dental Clinics of North America

In this issue of Dental Clinics, guest editor Dr. Stephanie M. Munz brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Special Care Dentistry. In this issue, top experts in the field focus on the provision of dental care services for people with cognitive, physical, medical, or developmental conditions which can preclude them from receiving routine dental care. Key topics include patients with cleft lip, orofacial pain, and neurosensory disorders, in addition to teledentistry, mentorship, advocacy, and the impact of the COVID pandemic.

• Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including dental materials in special care dentistry; the pandemic impact on oral health of patients with special healthcare needs; teledentistry for patient-centered screening and assessment; oral health advocacy over the lifespan for the patient with special healthcare needs; interprofessional collaboration for the patient with special healthcare needs; and more.
  
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on special care dentistry, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
  
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
  

List of contents

Caries Management in Special Care DentistryThe Impact of COVID-19 on the Oral Health of Patients with Special NeedsTeledentistry for Patient-centered Screening and AssessmentThe Multisensory/Snoezelen Environment to Optimize the Dental Care Patient ExperienceThinking Outside the Tooth: Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Neuropathic Orofacial PainOral Health Advocacy for People with Special Health Care NeedsFrom Restraint to Medical Immobilization/Protective StabilizationThe Prenatal Diagnosis and Consultation for Cleft Lip and Palate Prior to Presurgical Infant Orthopedics and Early Dental CareInterdisciplinary Oral Health for Those with Special Health Care NeedsMentorship for the Future Special Care Dentist

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephanie M Munz (Editor), Stephanie M. Munz (Editor), Stephanie M. Munz (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2022
• EAN: 9780323919678
• ISBN: 978-0-323-91967-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Dentistry; MEDICAL / Dentistry / General, dentistry, MEDICAL / Surgery / Oral & Maxillofacial, ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, Oral & maxillofacial surgery, Dentistry and related oral medicines