Dena Fischer, DDS, MSD, MS, is Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc, is Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH, FDS, RCSEd, is Associate Professor, Department of Oral Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and Attending Physician at the Division of Oral Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia.
<p> This book provides generalists at any level a goodoverview of common oral diseases. Importantly, it provides a usefulmetric to approaching medically compromised individuals. There area few other books that may provide a more in-depth review of oralmedicine and management of the medically complex patient indentistry, such as Oral Medicine and MedicallyComplex Patients, 6th edition, Lockhart(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), which treats the topic in moredepth. (Doody s, 3 January 2014)