First published in 1958, Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology has become the foundational text for successive generations of dentistry students. The book highlights the aetiology and pathogenesis of oral diseases and focuses on a variety of diseases commonly encountered in clinical practice. This edition brings the presentation up-to-date with current disease profiles and contemporary treatment modalities and clinical practices. It also includes several new topics which makes the text especially relevant for Indian and tropical conditions. All the chapters have been thoroughly revised and old images have been replaced by good quality illustrations as far as possible.
The periodic and timely revisions of Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology have brought out a treatise, well conceived and written with the aim of updating students all necessary nuances of the specialty. The scope of the present edition is an extension of this goal aimed at understanding the disease processes at more fundamental level, the impetus being those in the maxillofacial region. The book highlights the etiopathogenesis and clinical presentation of oral diseases and focuses on a variety of diseases commonly encountered in clinical practice.
Salient Features
- Extensively revised and updated chapters
- Temporomandibular Joint Diseases section completely rewritten
- Physical and Chemical Injuries of the Oral Cavity chapter updated
- Extensive revision of Dental Caries and Forensic Odontology chapters
- Advanced information scattered throughout the book in highlighted boxes