cover image - Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323287340
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 01-25-2016
Page Count: 459
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $99.99

Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

by Stephen J. Stefanac, DDS, MS and Samuel P. Nesbit, DDS, MS

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323287340
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 01-25-2016
Page Count: 459
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $99.99
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Help dental students learn to identify problems and develop treatment plans for all types of patients! Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry, 3rd Edition provides a full-color guide to creating treatment plans based on a comprehensive patient evaluation. Using evidence-based research, this text shows how risk assessment, prognosis, and expected treatment outcomes factor into the planning process. New chapters cover patient diagnosis and team-based treatment planning, and a new Evolve website includes videos and decision-making algorithms. This is the only dental resource that combines patient examination and oral diagnosis with treatment planning!

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Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

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ISBN: 9780323809764
    • NEW Common Diagnoses in Dentistry chapter provides guidelines to making an accurate patient diagnosis prior to beginning treatment.
    • NEW Interprofessional Treatment Planning chapter describes dental care in the context of a team-based collaborative approach, so that the dental treatment plan aligns with the overall treatment goals of the patient.
    • NEW! Full-color photographs illustrate clinical principles and pathologies, and a colorful design highlights key content.
    • Updated content reflects advances in dental techniques, materials, and patient treatment options based on research, clinical experience, and current literature.
    • Logical organization builds student understanding with sections on comprehensive patient evaluation, key treatment planning concepts, a detailed review of the five phases of planning treatment and guidelines for selecting the appropriate plan of care, and care planning for patients with special needs.
    • Evidence-based coverage demonstrates how to use research and clinical evidence in making treatment planning decisions.
    • In Clinical Practice boxes highlight situations that may be faced by the general dentist.
    • What's the Evidence? boxes cite relevant research articles affecting clinical decision-making and treatment planning strategies.
    • Ethics in Dentistry boxes address ethical issues a dental student or clinician may encounter in treatment planning.
    • Review questions reinforce the important concepts in each chapter with thought-provoking, clinically useful exercises.
    • Expert authors and contributors provide a current, authoritative resource for effective treatment planning.
    • Key Terms and a Glossary highlight and define important terminology.
    • NEW Common Diagnoses in Dentistry chapter provides guidelines to making an accurate patient diagnosis prior to beginning treatment.
    • NEW Interprofessional Treatment Planning chapter describes dental care in the context of a team-based collaborative approach, so that the dental treatment plan aligns with the overall treatment goals of the patient.
    • NEW! Full-color photographs illustrate clinical principles and pathologies, and a colorful design highlights key content.
    • Updated content reflects advances in dental techniques, materials, and patient treatment options based on research, clinical experience, and current literature.
    • NEW resources on an Evolve website include videos and decision-making algorithms.
  • Section 1: Patient Examination and Diagnosis
    1.  Patient Evaluation and Assessment
    2.  Common Diagnoses in Dentistry  NEW!
    Section 2: The Treatment Planning Process
    3.  Evidence Based Treatment Planning: Assessment of Risk, Prognosis, and Expected Treatment Outcomes
    4.  Developing the Treatment Plan
    5.  Interprofessional Treatment Planning  NEW!
    6.  Ethical and Legal Considerations when Treatment Planning
    Section 3: Phases of the Treatment Plan
    7.  The Systemic Phase of Treatment
    8.  The Acute Phase of Treatment 
    9.  The Disease Control Phase of Treatment 
    10.  The Definitive Phase of Treatment
    11.  The Maintenance Phase of Care
    Section 4: Planning Treatment for Unique Patient Populations
    12.  The Patient with Special Needs
    13.  The Patient Who Is Substance Dependent
    14.  The Anxious or Fearful Dental Patient
    15.  The Patient with Psychological Disorders
    16.  The Adolescent Patient
    17.  The Geriatric Patient
    18.  The Motivationally Compromised or Financially Limited Patient
  • Stephen J. Stefanac, DDS, MS, Senior Associate Dean
    Associate Dean for Patient Services
    Professor, Periodontics and Oral Medicine
    University of Michigan School of Dentistry
    Ann Arbor, MI and Samuel P. Nesbit, DDS, MS, Clinical Professor
    Department of Operative Dentistry
    University of North Carolina School of Dentistry
    Chapel Hill, NC
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