General and Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist

Download or read book General and Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist written by Leslie DeLong and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text teaches dental hygiene students the essential information they need to visually examine and recognize oral disease in practice. The General Pathology section covers the major determinants of disease and the body systems as they are covered when taking a patient's medical history. The Oral Pathology section is organized according to characteristics of lesions, so students learn to recognize lesions by appearance and differentiate between similar lesions. More than 400 detailed photographs and illustrations help students identify lesions. Clinical examples and case studies are included. Distinctive clinical features of lesions are accompanied by lists of associated diseases.