Prepared by authors of international renown, The Pocketbook of Oral Disease offers a wealth of information in a handy quick-reference format. Containing over 500 tables and illustrations, this useful guide covers the most common and potentially serious oral conditions seen in clinical practice. Emphasising diagnosis and treatment in primary care, many topics are covered in a two-page spread to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiological images demonstrate essential features at a glance whilst complex terms are clarified in a glossary. The Pocketbook of Oral Disease will be ideal for dental students who are about to graduate, general dental practitioners and dental care professionals. - Written by high profile experts in the field - Concise, double page spread permits rapid review of essential information - Includes a wide range of colour clinical photographs, radiological images, and artwork schematics - Contains useful 'pull out' boxes to act as useful aide-memoirs - Algorithms help readers think through the challenge of diagnosis and organise information correctly - Glossary and alphabetically ordered syndromes further allow rapid access to key information

Offers a wealth of information in a handy quick-reference format. Containing over 500 tables and illustrations, covers the most common and potentially serious oral conditions seen in primary care dentistry. Will be ideal for dental students who are about to graduate, general dental practitioners and dental care professionals. [editor].

This handy guide is packed full of information to support medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals in making an accurate diagnosis in relation to different presenting complaints. Now in its fifth edition, the Pocketbook takes the reader through the key steps of narrowing a differential diagnosis, including history, examination and investigation findings. It has been fully updated to cover the full range of common presenting problems facing clinicians today. This book is easy-to-read and logical, making it useful for all clinicians within a variety of settings, from the classroom to emergency department and primary care. - Traffic light system to allow consideration of common before rarer diagnoses - Hazard symbols to highlight diagnoses that may need rapid assessment and management - Summary boxes, with a focus on malignancy red flag symptoms - Updated terminology and investigations - This Fifth Edition covers 125 common presenting problems in both medicine and surgery in a consistent format. - Each topic includes a list of all potential causes of the condition, colour coded to indicate common, occasional or rare causes. Important geographical variations are also highlighted. - Two sections cover the differential diagnosis of biochemical and haematological disorders which provide a ready check when reviewing abnormal results - The text includes a targeted guide to the relevant general and specific follow-up investigations which should be carried out as appropriate. - Each topic ends with a box highlighting important learning points, or indicating symptom and signs suggestive of significant pathology which require urgent action. - A new authorial team have thoroughly revised the contents and ensured the coverage is entirely appropriate for the book's readership.

The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.

Covering general medicine and the implications of medical conditions for dental practice, this is a pocketbook for dental students and general dental practitioners.

This best-selling pocket guide continues to bridge the ap between dental and medical knowledge. It provides practical information for the dental professional on how to take a full medical history, examine the patient, perform the appropriate investigations, appreciate the patient's medical problems and their implications on dental managements, and treat their patients in a safe and effective way.

For the third edition, the text has been thoroughly revised to keep pace with new concepts in oral medicine. The structure of the text has been clarified and made more practically useful, with references to etiology, clinical images, differential diagnosis, laboratory diagnostic tests, and therapy guidelines. Also new in the third edition: four new chapters, and more than 240 new, exquisite illustrations of lesions and pathologic conditions affecting the oral cavity.

- Enable all dentists, undergraduate and postgraduate students and those preparing for entrance examinations to understand the subject and procedures in Pedodontics in a much quicker and efficient manner. The essence of this book is quick understanding, reference and revision in minimum time.

A concise, easy-to-refer-to handbook of common conditions seen in general practice and how to treat them. Each condition is discussed in a standard way that will be familiar to most GPs – assessment, including history and examination, and management. Throughout the book there are ‘alert’ boxes (marked with an exclamation point!) as well as helpful hints and ‘useful tips’, set off in boxes. This edition is completely up to date with the very latest information and includes national guidelines on treating major diseases seen in primary care. There are also new Quality and Outcomes Framework features. Short, concise handbook focusing on clinical and practical aspects of disease management Covers all the diseases commonly seen in primary care Omits complexities such as disease aetiology to focus on practical aspects of the GPs' role Chapters are divided into systems of the body for ease of organisation and reference Topics presented as a diagnosis [e.g. epilepsy] or as a symptom [e.g. chest pain] to aid physician guidance Helpful appendices, including drug monitoring, private medical examinations, patient reports, notifiable diseases, management of anaphylaxis, immunisation, growth charts, dermatomes, etc. Incorporates all the latest national guidelines for diseases such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes Quality and Outcomes Framework features New chapter on Men's Health Updated guidelines Quality and Outcomes Framework features

Based on the best-selling hardcover edition, the new edition of the Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases provides complete information on the diagnosis and treatment of oral disease. Featuring 367 vivid color photographs, this Thieme Flexibook is the indispensable pocket reference for otolaryngologists, dentists, dermatologists and primary care practitioners.