Lexi-Comp's Oral Soft Tissue Diseases Manual: A Reference Manual for Diagnosis and Management (Lexi-Comp's Dental Reference Library)

Oral Soft Tissue Diseases, 4th Edition , is designed to assist in the diagnosis and management of patients with oral soft tissue diseases. This is a visually-cued manual, organized into 9 convenient, tabbed sections providing a user-friendly format for the busy dental professional - a perfect chair-side reference. Some oral soft tissue diseases exhibit distinctive clinical features and require little more than visual recognition to make an accurate diagnosis. Others share common features making an accurate diagnosis more challenging. Recognizing the clinical features most helpful in differentiating one lesion from another is an essential part of the diagnostic process. In this manual, each lesion is illustrated by one or more color photographs depicting typical clinical features and common variations. Recommendations for treatment and follow-up, including sample prescriptions and concise drug monographs, are included. It also includes 95 Lesions, and 5 Lesions. New to this Edition are: Pericoronitis; Graft-Versus-Host Disease; Dermoid Cyst; Bisphosphonate-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws; Angioedema; 219 Color Photographs; Expanded Sample Prescription Section; New Antibiotic Prophylaxis-Preprocedural Guidelines for Dental Patients; Alphabetical Index; and, Anatomic Site Index.