"Clinical Problem Solving in Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry, 2e" provides a unique step-by-step guide to differential diagnosis and treatment planning. The popular format helps readers combine different dental procedures into a rational plan of treatment for patients who may have several a number of different dental problems requiring attention. This is a second edition of a hugely successful practical resource in orthodontics and paediatric dentistry - ideal for undergraduate dental students and post-graduates preparing for the MJDF and similar exams.
Table of Contents:
1 Median diastema 2 Unerupted upper central incisor 3 Absent upper lateral incisors 4 Crowding and buccal upper canines 5 Severe crowding 6 Palatal canines 7 More canine problems 8 Infra-occluded primary molars 9 Increased overjet 10 Incisor crossbite 11 Reverse overjet 12 Increased overbite 13 Anterior open bite 14 Posterior crossbite 15 Bilateral crossbite 16 Late lower incisor crowding 17 Prominent chin and TMJDS 18 Drifting incisors 19 Appliance-related problems 20 Tooth movement and related problems 21 Cleft lip and palate 22 Nursing and early childhood caries 23 Continuing preventive care 24 The uncooperative child 25 Disorders of eruption and exfoliation 26 Pain control and carious teeth 27 Facial swelling and dental abscess 28 The displaced primary incisor 29 The fractured immature permanent incisor crown 30 The fractured permanent incisor root 31 The avulsed incisor 32 Poor quality first permanent molars 33 Tooth discolouration, hypomineralization and hypoplasia 34 Mottled teeth 35 Tooth surface loss 36 Multiple missing and abnormally shaped teeth 37 Amelogenesis imperfecta 38 Dentinogenesis imperfecta 39 Gingival bleeding and enlargement 40 Oral ulceration 41 Mind Maps(R) Appendices: A1 The Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need: Dental Health Component A2 Lateral cephalometric analysis
Review :
I personally like the approach of clinical-case based textbooks and find them much easier to learn from as the information is presented in a realistic situation.
This book is very easy-to-read, its small brief sections of introduction, medical history, and investigations makes for easy, logical reading. The way the text asks and then answers a question is for me an excellent way to learn as it simulates what clinical staff may ask the student in this situation.
The mind maps, I think, are also a particularly good feature of the book and unique in my experience. Most people choose to make things like this when they revise anyway so its handy to have the information required all linked together already.
This book is suitable for undergraduate students as it is useful book for general revision (patients invariably will fall into one of the categories covered), viva exams and unseen 'finals cases' - many students find this type of book (and especially Clinical Problem Solving by Odell) particularly useful as the theories and methods can be applied to a real life case. The book may also be relevant inexperienced clinicians as a reference text.
This is a book I would have never bothered looking at in a bookstore, proving the rule that you should never judge a book by its cover; however, after reading it for this review I can say that is has made orthodontics infinitely more appealing. Orthodontics is a subject so baffling that I wouldn't learn it unless I had to, but here the cases are worked through methodically and logically. I will certainly be recommending this text to other students.
Chris Rutter
5th Year Dental Student, Birmingham
This book should give almost all graduates a good grounding in these important areas!
Mr Ray Reed, Consultant Orthodontic Surgeon, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK
The book is relevant to curricular, certainly from the undergraduate and postgraduate paediatric dentistry perspective.. all the paediatric dentistry and combined clinical problems are ones that our undergraduates are expected to have knowledge and understanding of, as well as (we hope) to have encountered them either through clinical 'hands-on', observational or simulated (seminar) experience.
The philosophy of the book is highly appropriate. The holistic paedodontic/orthodontic approach to managing child patients is key and well illustrated in the problems used in the book. The options and justifications for treatment are the main 'chapter outcomes' with thorough discussion of their advantages and disadvantages given. This is an important learning feature for the undergraduate as one of their many roles in general practice will be to be able to explain these treatment options to their patients as part of a process of referral for specialist care. The content of the mind maps helps to ensure inclusiveness and inter-disciplinary revision when students are using them to consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
Dr Anne Maguire, School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
