A clinical guide to applied dental materialsA clinical guide to applied dental materialsThis book is written by a refreshing combination of a practising dentist with teaching experience and an academic with clinical experience. It places strong emphasis on the practical usage of dental materials. This excellent dental materials book is indispensable to anyone who is practising any aspect of restorative dentistry; be it a student who wants to learn and use the materials for the first time or an experienced clinician due to this book's relevance to day-to-day clinical dental practice. The book describes how to properly select any given material for any situation, how to use materials to best effect, and when and how not to use them.
The one thing that makes this book distinct is the numerous coloured boxes with practical hints and tips. The boxes with a 'tick' highlight good practice tips. The boxes with an 'exclamation mark' suggest precautions to be taken while using a material.
With familiar trade names and pictures used throughout the text it is easy for readers in the EU to relate the information to their everyday practice.
All sections are colour coded and the text is richly illustrated with plenty of colour photographs, artworks and tables to demonstrate various materials and techniques.
The first section covers general principles common to many materials, their handling and behaviour. The second section covers commonly used restorative materials including endodontics. The third section covers materials used for temporisation, impression taking and occlusal registration. The fourth section covers a wide range of other materials used in dental clinics including those for prevention, periodontics, oral surgery, implants and biomaterials. There is a separate chapter on dental bleaching systems and on cutting instruments. The last section covers laboratory materials that a practitioner needs to be familiar with to prescribe effectively and to discuss the cases with technicians.
This book will be a perfect companion for undergraduate students and postgraduate students preparing for exams as well as practising dentists.
As a practising clinician I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and learnt a lot of tips that are useful in daily practice. I was impressed by the breadth of topics covered under dental materials in this book.
This may not be intended to serve as a definitive dental materials or restorative text, but very successfully fulfils its aim by bridging the gap between dental material science and clinical practice.
