Saliva and Oral Health
- 3rd Edition
- List price: £35.00
- Members: £20.00
- Student: £17.50
Editors
M. W. Edgar, Professor of Dental Science, School of Dentistry, The University of Liverpool
D. M. O’Mullane, Professor of Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry and Director of Oral Health Services Research Centre, University Dental School and Hospital, Cork, Ireland
C. Dawes, Professor of Oral Biology, Department of Oral Biology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Key points
- Third edition of an established and respected text
- Practical advice on the importance of saliva in the maintenance of oral health
- Fully updated with new authors for some chapters
- Collects together the combined knowledge of some of the world’s leading experts in the subject
- Illustrated in full colour.
Scope
The much-anticipated new edition of this popular book. The editors and authors have taken the opportunity to fully revise, update and improve the text and figures, ensuring an authoritative and international work. Providing an essential overview of, arguably, one of the body’s most over looked and under estimated fluids, Saliva and Oral Health takes the reader through the composition, functions and protective effects of saliva.
The book is aimed principally at the ‘progressive and inquisitive practitioner’, but feedback from the previous editions has shown that undergraduate and postgraduate dental students, and other health professionals, have also found it useful. With a change in the attitude of dentists and medics in recognising the importance of saliva in the maintenance of oral health, the book fulfils an important role in collecting together the combined knowledge of some of the world’s leading experts in the subject.
Contents
1. The anatomy and physiology of salivary glands
2. Mechanisms of salivary secretion
3. Factors influencing salivary flow rate and composition
4. Xerostomia: aetiology, diagnosis, management, and clinical implications
5. Salivary clearance and its effects on oral health
6. Saliva and the control of plaque pH
7. Protective functions of saliva
8. The role of saliva in mineral equilibria – caries, erosion and calculus formation
Readership
General dental practitioners, dental undergraduates and postgraduates.
Biblio details
Publication: July 2004 64pp
List price: £35.00
Members: £20.00
Student: £17.50
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