Pedro Diz Dios, Navdeep Kumar

2021; John Wiley & Sons.

573 pages

eISBN 9781119600053

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A Practical Approach to Special Care in Dentistry provides an 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 both patients with disabilities - including physical disabilities, like cerebral palsy and epilepsy, and cognitive impairments, like Down syndrome - and medically compromised patients - those with infectious diseases, endocrine diseases, hepatorenal disease, and cardiovascular disease.

Each chapter contains a case report establishing the main risk factors, followed by practical adaptations for the reader to follow to minimise the rate and severity of potential complications for their patient. Practical discussions of other special patient situations, like those with allergies, antiresorptive and antiangiogenic drugs, terminal patients, homeless patients, and pregnant or breastfeeding patients are also included in this comprehensive text.