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Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient

Ensure your patients’ health and safety! This practical guide helps you to determine the severity and stability of common medical disorders in the dental office, so you'll always know how to proceed to provide the best possible care and avoid complications. Concise, clinically focused coverage details the basic disease process for each condition, along with the incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, currently accepted medical therapies, and recommendations for specific dental management.

•  Reference lists provide places where the reader can go to obtain more detailed information.

•  Dental Management Summary Table synthesises important factors.

•  Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health Care Settings appendix.

•  Therapeutic Management of Common Oral Lesions appendix.

•  Drug Interactions of Significance to Dentistry appendix alerts practitioners.

•  Table of contents are divided according to category of medical condition.