A Practical Approach to Special Care in Dentistry

Pedro Diz Dios, Navdeep Kumar, Pedro Diz Dios, Navdeep Kumar

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781119600046
• eBook ISBN: 9781119600015
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Dentistry

A Practical Approach to Special Care in Dentistry

Learn to treat dental patients with disabilities or who are medically compromised

A Practical Approach to Special Care in Dentistry delivers a comprehensive and robust overview of special care dentistry reflecting the most common compromised clinical conditions dentists will regularly encounter. It discusses more than 50 topics based on real-world clinical cases focusing on two main areas: patients with disabilities and medically compromised patients.

The book uses a problem-based learning approach and helps the reader to apply knowledge in a clinical case context. Each chapter contains a case report establishing the main risk factors relating to the provision of dental treatment. That is followed by a practical and realistic set of adaptations for the reader to follow to minimise the rate and severity of potential complications for their patient. The book also includes:

• A thorough introduction to patientswith disabilities, including physical disabilities, like cerebral palsy and epilepsy, and cognitive impairments, like Down's Syndrome
• Comprehensive explorations of the treatment of medically compromised patients, like those with infectious diseases, endocrine diseases, hepatorenal disease, and cardiovascular disease
• Practical discussions of other special patient situations, like those with allergies, antiresorptive and antiangiogenic drugs, terminal patients, underhoused patients, and pregnant or breastfeeding patients

Perfect for general dentists, undergraduate students of odontology, and graduate students of special care dentistry, A Practical Approach to Special Care in Dentistry is also a must-read resource for dental specialists in special care dentistry, hospital odontology, geriatric odontology, oral surgery, and dental hygienists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Authors
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Physical Disability
• 2 Cognitive Impairment
• 3 Sensory Impairment
• 4 Infectious Diseases
• 5 Endocrine Diseases
• 6 Hepatorenal Diseases
• 7 Bone Diseases
• 8 Cardiovascular Diseases
• 9 Respiratory Disease
• 10 Bleeding Disorders
• 11 Blood Dyscrasias
• 12 Immunosuppression
• 13 Head and Neck Cancer
• 14 Neurological Disorders and Strokes
• 15 Psychiatric Disorders
• 16 Other Special Considerations
• Appendix A: Appendix ACase Mix Model
• Appendix B: Appendix BCommon Oral Manifestations of Systemic Diseases
• Appendix C: Appendix CAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Classification System
• Appendix D: Appendix DGlasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
• Appendix E: Appendix EWHO Three‐step Ladder for Pain Relief
• Appendix F: Appendix FMedical Conditions Associated with Increased Bleeding Risk
• Appendix G: Appendix GClasses of Drugs Associated with Increased Bleeding Risk
• Appendix H: Appendix HBleeding Risk Associated with Dental Procedures
• Appendix I: Appendix ITopical Haemostatic Agents for Invasive Dental Procedures
• Index
• End User License Agreement