Clinical Problem Solving in Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
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- Focuses on clinical problem-solving in orthodontics and paediatric dentistry — two closely-related topics that are usually separated into different volumes.
- Provides practical help with treatment planning, guiding the reader through the process of safe and effective decision-making.
- Provides two different approaches to the clinical cases — some topics include scenarios with questions and answers; others include differential diagnosis with a focus on how to plan and manage treatment effectively.
- Uses ‘key-point" boxes systematically to emphasise core knowledge for assessment and treatment approaches.
- Contains valuable ‘mind-maps’, which helps the reader consolidate information prior to exams.
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- Thoroughly updated text with over 140 new clinical images
- New orthodontic sections covering classification and definitions, referral guide, implications of some medical problems, together with further information on CBCT and TADs, protraction facemask treatment, management of non-nutritive sucking habits, and retainer types and problems.
- New authorship to paediatric dentistry section provides comprehensive text revision
- New paediatric dentistry Clinical Cases address behavioural problems in the child and adolescent, the treatment of children with learning difficulties and physical disability, as well as providing coverage of common medical problems in children and assessment of dental trauma
- Updated reading lists include Cochrane reviews
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1 Median diastema and ectopic eruption of an upper first permanent molar
2 Unerupted upper central incisor
3 Absent upper lateral incisors
4 Crowding and buccal upper canines
5 Severe crowding
6 Palatal canines
7 More canine problems
8 Infraoccluded primary molars
9 Increased overjet
10 Incisor crossbite
11 Reverse overjet
12 Increased overbite
13 Anterior open bite
14 Posterior crossbite
15 Bilateral crossbite
16 Late lower incisor crowding
17 Prominent chin and TMJDS
18 Drifting incisors
19 Appliance-related problems
20 Tooth movement and related problems
21 Cleft lip and palate
22 Nursing and early childhood caries
23 High caries risk adolescents
24 Pain control and treatment planning for carious primary teeth
25 Facial swelling and dental abscess
26 The uncooperative child and adolescent
27 Children with disabilities and learning difficulties
28 Common medical problems in children
29 The displaced primary incisor
30 The fractured immature permanent incisor crown
31 The root fractured permanent incisor
32 The avulsed incisor
33 Disorders of eruption and exfoliation
34 Poor quality first permanent molars
35 Tooth discoloration, hypomineralization and hypoplasia
36 Mottled teeth
37 Multiple missing and abnormally shaped teeth
38 Amelogenesis imperfecta
39 Dentinogenesis imperfecta
40 Dental erosion
41 Gingival bleeding and enlargement
42 Oral ulceration
43 Mind Maps®
APPENDICES
A1 The index of orthodontic treatment need: dental health component
A2 Classification and definitions
A3 Orthodontic problems: referral guide
A4 Implications of some medical problems for orthodontics
A5 Lateral cephalometric analysis
A6 A structured dental trauma history form