Highlighting the interrelationships between oral and general health, this book includes topics such as oral cancer, TMJ dysfunction, infections, AIDS, salivary gland disease, infection control and those systemic and oral diseases which pose considerable difficulty to both the patient and clinician on a daily basis. These sections also highlight briefly some relevant issues on drugs used in oral medicine, their interaction and complications.

Readership: Primarily for final year undergraduate dental students in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa. Also of interest to postgraduate students, dentists, surgeons, nursing staff as well as teachers of dentistry in those areas.

1. Diagnostic Approaches to the Common Oral Symptoms 2. The Scope of Clinical Laboratory Investigations in Oral Medicine 3. Infection Control in Dental Practice 4. Halitosis 5. Xerostomia 6. Orofacial Pain 7. Burning Mouth Syndrome 8. Common Non-Neoplastic Salivary Gland Diseases 9. Temporomandibular Disorder 10. White Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 11. Pigmented Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 12. Red Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 13. Ulcerative and Erosive Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 14. Vesiculo-Bullous Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 15. Common Infections of the Oral Muscosa 16. Oral Pre-Cancer 17. Oral Cancer 18. Anaemias of Oral Significance 19. Oral Diseases of Immunological Background 20. Bleeding Disorders 21. Viral Hepatitis 22. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome 23. Ineffective Endocarditis 24. Medically Compromised Patient: An Overview 25. Application of Dental Science in Forensic Investigation

S.R. Prabhu