Cawson's essentials of oral pathology and oral medicine / R.A. Cawson and E.W. Odell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover -- Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Principles of investigation and diagnosis -- Taking a history -- Clinical examination -- Medical examination -- Making a clinical differential diagnosis and investigation plan -- Special investigations -- Normal haematological values -- SECTION 1: HARD TISSUE PATHOLOGY -- Chapter 2. Disorders of development of the teeth and related tissues -- Abnormalities in the number of teeth -- Disorders of eruption -- Defects of structure: hypoplasia and hypocalcification -- Odontomas. Genetic disorders of the jawsClefts of the lip and palate -- Developmental defects of the oral soft tissues -- Chapter 3. Dental caries -- Aetiology -- Microbiology -- Bacterial plaque -- Sucrose as a plaque substrate -- Susceptibility of teeth to caries -- Saliva and dental caries -- Pathology of enamel caries -- Pathology of dentine caries -- Chapter 4. Pulpitis, apical periodontitis, resorption and hypercementosis -- Pulpitis -- Pulp calcifications -- Periapical periodontitis -- Acute apical periodontitis -- Chronic apical periodontitis -- Resorption of teeth -- Hypercementosis -- Chronic (non-carious) injuries to teeth. Chapter 5. Gingivitis and periodontitisThe normal periodontal tissues -- Nomenclature and classification of periodontal disease -- Chronic gingivitis -- Chronic adult periodontitis -- Periodontal (lateral) abscess -- Juvenile periodontitis -- Acute pericoronitis -- Acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis -- HIV-associated gingivitis -- HIV-associated periodontitis -- Herpetic gingivostomatitis -- Miscellaneous periodontal disorders -- Inflammatory gingival swellings -- Gingival recession -- Chapter 6. Major infections of the mouth, jaws and perioral tissues -- Acute osteomyelitis of the jaws -- Chronic osteomyelitis. Chronic low-grade osteomyelitis and osteitisBisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis -- Osteoradionecrosis -- Alveolar osteitis -- Sclerotic bone islands -- Fascial space infections (cervicofacial cellulitis) -- Necrotising fasciitis -- Cavernous sinus thrombosis -- Maxillofacial gangrene (noma, cancrum oris) -- Actinomycosis -- The systemic mycoses -- Systemic infections by oral bacteria -- Normal healing of an extraction socket -- Chapter 7. Cysts of the jaws -- Typical features of jaw cysts -- Other cystic or cyst-like lesions -- Radicular cysts -- Paradental cysts -- Dentigerous cysts -- Eruption cyst. Keratinising odontogenic cystsOdontogenic keratocyst -- Orthokeratinised odontogenic cyst (orthokeratinised odontogenic keratocyst) -- Gingival cysts -- Lateral periodontal cysts -- Glandular odontogenic cyst (sialo-odontogenic cyst) -- Nasopalatine duct cysts -- Nasolabial cysts -- Cystic neoplasms -- Neoplastic change within cysts -- So-called globulomaxillary cysts -- Cysts of the soft tissues -- Chapter 8. Odontogenic tumours and tumour-like lesions of the jaws -- Ameloblastomas -- Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour -- Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour -- Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma.