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General Medicine and Surgery Iulia Ciolachi
for Dental Practitioners DMD
Holistic Dental & Medical Institute
of Bucharest - ROPOSTURO
Bucharest, Romania
e-mail:
Authors: Mark Greenwood, John G. Meechan dr.iuliaciolachi@yahoo.ro
Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-319-97737-9
Edition: 3/e
Publish Year: 2019
Books Review
Pages: 253, illustrated
Price: € 96,29
The third edition of General Medicine and Surgery for Dental Practitioners by Mark Greenwood and John
G. Meechan provides a detailed overview of the medical and surgical conditions that affect patients seen in
daily dental practice. The book has twenty chapters and ends with an index..
The first chapter focuses on the holistic patient assessment and main components of a medical history. The
next nine chapters address the nine types of body systems and their conditions. They explain how to clinically
recognize some general conditions, which is the protocol of dental treatment in certain conditions, in which
cases the dental treatment can be done in the dental offices and when to be treated in hospital. The most
common are cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal system, neurological disorders, liver disease, en-
docrine system, renal disorders, musculoskeletal system, hematology and patients with bleeding problems.
The following two chapters specifically talk about the pediatric patient and the older patient management in
daily dental practice. The keys to successful treatment with this type of patient are: accurate medical history,
good examination, rigorous preventive programs, dental intervention at times appropriate to medical care
and regular follow-up.
Metabolic disorders, skin disorders, psychiatry, cancer, radiotherapy and chemotherapy and dental practice
are the topics of the next four chapters.
Knowledge of all of these disorders will highlight patients who need special precautions to facilitate safe
treatment. It is important that dental practitioners are aware of the most common disorders and their poten-
tial implications as they are likely to encounter them in clinical practice.
The next chapter presents the currently recommended contents of the emergency drug box as well as the
equipment and basic management principles.
The following chapter discusses treatment for specific emergencies, teaches us how to recognize signs and
symptoms of relevant medical emergencies and what medicines to administer. The subsequent chapter pres-
ents and underlines principles behind maintaining a safe working environment. The last chapter provides an
overview of clinical immunology and how it interfaces with dentistry.
General Medicine and Surgery for Dental Practitioners is a book useful to all practitioners, helping them
to better recognize and treat patients with certain conditions that can lead to true complications in combina-
tion with dental treatments. It is written in an easy way and is accompanied by numerous images to facilitate
understanding.
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