Description

Ensure your patients' health and safety! Practical guidance helps you 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.

• Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, 7th Edition
• Little, Falace, Miller & Rhodus
• Table of Contents
• Part 1: Evaluation and Risk Assessment
• 1. Physical Evaluation and Risk Assessment
• Part 2: Cardiovascular Disease
• 2. Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis
• 3. Hyertension
• 4. Ischemic Heart Disease
• 5. Cardiac Arrhythmias
• 6. Heart Failure
• Part 3: Pulmonary Disease
• 7. Pulmonary Disease
• 8. Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation
• 9. Tuberculosis
• 10. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders
• Part 4: Gastrointestinal Disease
• 11. Liver Disease
• 12. GI Disease
• Part 5: Genitourinary Disease
• 13. Chronic Renal Failure and Dialysis
• 14. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Part 6: Endocrine and Metabolic Disease
• 15. Diabetes Mellitus
• 16. Adrenal Insufficiency
• 17. Thyroid Disease
• 18. Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding
• Part 7: Immunologic Disease
• 19. AIDS, HIV infection, and Related Conditions
• 20. Allergy
• 21. Rheumatologic and Connective Tissue Disorders
• 22. Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation
• Part 8: Hematologic and Oncologic Disease
• 23. Disorders of Red Blood Cells
• 24. Disorders of White Blood Cells
• 25. Bleeding Disorders
• 26. Cancer and the Oral Care of the Patient
• Part 9: Neurologic, Behavioral, and Psychiatric Disorders
• 27. Neurological Disorders
• 28. Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders (Anxiety, Delirium, and Eating Disorders)
• 29. Psychiatric Disorders
• 30. Dental Management of Older Adults
• Appendix
• A. Guidelines for Infection Control In Dental Health Care Settings—2003
• B. Therapeutic Management of Common Oral Lesions
• C. Drug Interactions of Significance to Dentistry
• D. Complementary Medicines and Dentistry

Author Information

By James W. Little, DMD, MS, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry-Minneapolis, MN; Donald Falace, DMD, Professor and Division Chief, University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry, Department of Oral Health Science, Lexington, KY; Craig Miller, DMD, MS, Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Oral Health Science, College of Dentistry, Lexington, KY, USA; and Nelson L. Rhodus, DMD, MPH, Morse Distinguished Professor and Director, Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Diagnosis and Oral Radiology, University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry and College of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN