Clinical Guide to Oral Diseases

A quick reference and revision guide on the most common oral and perioral diseases seen in clinical practice

Clinical Guide to Oral Diseasesis a concise reference on the common diseases encountered in daily practice. Presenting a large selection of clinical cases, this user-friendly resource covers a range of oral and perioral lesions located in hard and soft tissues of the mouth and neck, as well as oral manifestations of various systemic diseases. Nearly 300 high-quality color images complement succinct descriptions of clinical cases seen in both community and hospital care settings.

Divided into three parts, the text first covers oral lesions classified by their color, appearance, and symptomatology such as bleeding, disturbances of saliva, taste, and orofacial pain. Part two describes the most common oral lesions by location, including those in the buccal mucosae, floor of mouth, gingivae and jaws, lips, neck, palate, salivary glands, tongue, and teeth. The third part encompasses oral lesions that are normal variations or those common to specific age groups or associated with various clinical phenomena.

• Provides nearly 300 high-quality clinical photos and relevant questions to help lead readers to the proper diagnosis of common oral diseases
• Contains concise tables relevant to each chapter with a list of common oral lesions and conditions
• Offers MCQs of varying levels of difficulty to help readers test their knowledge in Oral Medicine
• Includes clinical flow charts according to the location and duration of oral lesions
• Incorporates the ICD-10 Codes of oral lesions and diseases

Clinical Guide to Oral Diseases is a valuable reference for general dental and medical practitioners, undergraduate dental students, and postgraduate trainees in oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, periodontology as well as general pathology, dermatology or head and neck oncology.

Dr Dimitris Malamos, DDS, MSc, PhD and DIP.O.M. is an Oral Medicine Specialist at the Oral Medicine Clinic of the National Organization for the Provision of Health Services, Athens, Greece.

Professor Crispian Scully, CBE, MD, PhD, MDS, MRCS, BSC, FDS RCS, FDS RCPS, FFD RCSI, FDSRCSF, FRC Path, FMedSci, FHFA, FUCL, DSc, DCKD, DMed (HC) was formerly Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral HealthGeneral Health and Emeritus Professor at University College London, UK.

Preface vii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgment xi

About the Companion Website xiii

Section I 1

1 Bleeding 3

2 Blue and/or Black Lesions 19

3 Brown Lesions 35

4 Malador 51

5 Muscle Deficits (Trismus/Paralysis) 67

6 Orofacial Pain 83

7 Red Lesions 99

8 Saliva Disturbances (Xerostomia/Sialorrhea) 115

9 Swellings (Diffuse/Lumps) 131

10 Taste Deficits 147

11 Ulcerations 163

12 Vesiculobullous Lesions 179

13 White Lesions 195

14 Yellow Lesions 209

Section II 223

15 Buccal Mucosa 225

16 Floor of the Mouth 233

17 Gingivae 241

18 Jaws 251

19 Lips 261

20 Neck 271

21 Palate 279

22 Salivary Glands (Minor/Major) 287

23 Teeth 297

24 Tongue 321

Section III 331

25 Normal Variations 333

26 Oral Lesions According to Patients Age 349

27 Clinical Tests, Signs and Phenomena 369

Abbreviations 387

Diagnostic Flow Charts According to the Location of Oral Lesions 389

Appendix: ICD-10 Codes of Oral Diseases/Lesions 407

Index 413