Category: Dental Surgery

This book covers both basic scientific and clinically relevant aspects of dental composite materials with a view to meeting the needs of researchers and practitioners. Following an introduction on their development, the composition of contemporary composites is analyzed. A chapter on polymerization explains the setting reactions and light sources available for light-cured composites. The quality of monomer-to-polymer conversion is a key factor for material properties. Polymerization shrinkage along with the associated stress remains among the most challenging issues regarding composite restorations. A new classification of dental composites is proposed to offer more clinically relevant ways of differentiating between commercially available materials. A review of specific types of composites provides an insight into their key issues. The potential biological issues of dental composites are reviewed in chapters on elution of leachable substances and cariogenicity of resin monomers. Clinical sections focus on material placement, finishing procedures, and the esthetics and clinical longevity of composite restorations. Bonding to tooth tissues is addressed in a separate chapter, as is the efficiency of various composite repair methods. The final chapter discusses future perspectives on dental composite materials.

Vesna Miletic, BDS, MSc, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia. She gained her BDS in 2000 from the University of Belgrade School of Dental Medicine, where she went on to complete her MSc in 2005. She obtained her doctorate in 2010 from Edinburgh Postgraduate Dental Institute, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK for a thesis on “Micro-Raman spectroscopic studies on the adhesive-dentine interface and the degree of conversion of dental adhesives”. She subsequently worked as a postdoc in Edinburgh and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

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The Complete Dentist: Positive Leadership and Communication Skills for Success presents proven ideas and methods to help the dentist understand the essential principles of effective communication, become more influential and credible, improve presentations, gain case acceptance and retain patients, and get more referrals. The book also explains the five elements of success and happiness (PERMA), which lead to better leadership and communication skills. This resource thoroughly examines the reasons why it’s important for dentists to be effective communicators and leaders, and how this will help their patients, staff, and practices.

This unique book offers chapters covering the field of dentistry today; human interaction rules; dentists and stress; attributes of vision, values and mission; positive psychology and leadership; being passionate; being optimistic; setting policies; managing energy and not time; how to build a team; and more.

• Presents tried-and-true ideas and methods for effective communication, blending positive psychology with leadership in dentistry
• Describes the five elements of success and happiness, offering pathways to a flourishing dental practice
• Considers the reasons why communication and leadership skills are important for dentists

Filled with an abundance of insight gained from years of experience, Barry Polansky’s The Complete Dentist: Positive Leadership and Communication Skills for Success is a wholly unique and welcome read for general and specialist dentists in all areas of practice.

The author
Barry Polansky, DMD, CAPP, operates his own private dental practice in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA. He is a Visiting Faculty at the Pankey Institute in Key Biscayne, Florida, USA, and is the founder and developer of www.academyofdentalleadership.com and www.taoofdentistry.com.

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This book is a comprehensive guide to apical periodontitis in root-filled teeth that covers not only all aspects of diagnosis and management but also epidemiology, etiology, consequences, clinical decision-making, and prognosis. There is a particular focus on the available surgical and nonsurgical methods of retreatment designed to restore healthy periapical conditions.  Alternatives to retreatment are also explored, including a conservative approach involving monitoring of the diseased tooth without intervention and the option of extraction and replacement with an implant or a fixed prosthesis.

The goal of root canal treatment is to save the natural tooth even when tissue breakdown has resulted in pathological conditions of the pulp and periradicular tissue. However, population studies reveal that complete healing is often absent in root-filled teeth, and apical periodontitis is frequently observed in conjunction with root fillings of poor technical quality. Under these

circumstances, questions arise as to how the apical periodontitis is impacting on the patient and how the condition should be tackled. Readers will find this well-illustrated book to be of great value in directing clinical practice.

Thomas Kvist, DDS, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Endodontology at the Institute of Odontology, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Kvist graduated in 1983 from the School of Dentistry, Göteborg in 1983 and went on to complete his Specialist Certification in Endodontics in 1994 and his doctorate in Odontology (Göteborg University) in 2001. Prior to joining the Institute of Odontology at The Sahlgrenska Academy, he was Director of Postgraduate Training in Endodontology in the Department of Endodontology, Faculty of Odontology, Public Dental Health, Gothenburg and Head of Clinic, Special Clinic for Endodontics, Public Dental Health Service, Gothenburg. Dr. Kvist has been a lecturer or instructor on numerous continuing endodontic courses and workshops and an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings. He has served as Treasurer of the Scandinavian Society of Endodontology and Secretary of the Swedish Endodontic Society and in 2014 became a Member of the Cochrane Oral Health Group Restorative Speciality Expert Group.

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