Overview
- Points out barriers for treatments of neglected patients
- Discusses the inability to address basic oral needs for children
- Explains diagnosis and treatment of vulnerable patient in the dental office
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book equips the reader with a sound understanding of the treatment of neglected and vulnerable patients in the dental office. It offers a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to atraumatic carious treatment, minimal intervention dentistry, TMJ affections and nutritional consequences. Maintaining proper oral health includes managing of oral hygiene, healthy diet and seeking for a treatment when needed. Untreated dental disease can have a significant adverse impact on the health, wellbeing and quality of life. This book helps practitioners to understand and address the needs of dental neglected adults and children, and guide them through prevention procedures, diagnostics and treatment planning. Important techniques like physiologic impression for removable denture, single crown impression, digital planning and prosthodontic bridges are explained, and socio-demographic and economic changes in Oral Health are discussed. The comprehensive coverage of the topic and the evidencebased references make this book a must have for dental practitioners.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. A.Mersel is associate professor at the Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine and a Specialist in Oral Rehabilitation. He acted as Director of Complete Dentures and Gerodontics, and was the Founder and Chair of the European College of Gerodontology. Prof. Mersel was appointed Convenor and Chair of the FDI Section of Gerodontolgy and the former Director for FDI Europe Continuing Education Program. He currently serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Dental Medicine Department Community Dentistry Jerusalem, and as Director of Studies at The Geneva Institute of Medical Dentistry. Dr. Mersel published 105 scientific articles, 3 Chapters in Textbooks and recently a book: Oral Rehabilitation for Compromised and Elderly Patients.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Treatment Dilemmas for Vulnerable Patients in Oral Health
Book Subtitle: Clinical and Ethical Issues
Editors: Alexander Mersel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08435-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08434-8Published: 16 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08437-9Published: 17 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08435-5Published: 14 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 85
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Dentistry, Nursing Ethics