New Books

Shattered smiles: the faces of Noma / by Heron Gezahegn Gebretsadik
RK450 .N66 G43 2023
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing 2023

"Shattered Smiles: The Faces of Noma sheds light on the neglected plight of Noma victims, exposing the crippling effects of poverty, malnutrition, and inadequate healthcare. Shattered Smiles: The Faces of Noma aims to confront the staggering negligence surrounding Noma’s disease. The book unveils the tragic consequences of delayed intervention, inadequate healthcare systems, and societal apathy. Through compelling case studies and scientific evidence, Shattered Smiles: The Faces of Noma argues the urgent need for improved awareness, early detection, and accessible treatment options. The author believes that the book serves as a wake-up call, urging medical professionals, health organizations, policymakers, and communities to take decisive action against the negligence perpetuating this devastating affliction. Shattered Smiles: The Faces of Noma is an impassioned plea for justice, compassion, and the eradication of this preventable tragedy from our world. Shattered Smiles: The Faces of Noma is a call to action, compelling us to join the fight against Noma and restore dignity and basic human rights to those afflicted by its ruthless grip." From the publisher's website.

New eBooks

Neuromuscular Orthodontics: A Clinical Guide / by Fabio Savastano
Springer 2023

"This book is a practical guide for applying neuromuscular principles to orthodontics. It is designed to meet the needs of dental students and practitioners. The book provides a solid foundation in neuromuscular dentistry, explaining the basic anatomy and ideal functioning of the mouth and jaw. It covers important techniques like mandibular tracking, TENS, and surface EMG, which are used for diagnosing, planning treatment, and monitoring progress. The last chapter features case studies with Kinesiography, showing the long-term outcomes after treatment. The information in the book is presented clearly and written in an easy-to-understand style." From the publisher's website.

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The Thinking Healthcare System: Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity / by Dominique J. Monlezun
Elsevier 2023

"The Thinking Healthcare System: Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity is the first comprehensive book detailing the historical, global, and technical trends shaping the evolution of the modern healthcare system into its final form—an AI-driven thinking healthcare system, structured and functioning as a global digital health ecosystem. Written by the world’s first triple doctorate trained physician-data scientist and ethicist, and author of three AI textbooks and over 350 scientific and ethics papers, this indispensable resource makes sense of how technology, economics, and ethics are already producing the future’s health system—and how to ensure it works for every patient, community, and culture in our globalized, digitalized, and divided world.
Providing clear descriptions and concrete examples, this book brings together AI-accelerated digital health ecosystems, data architecture, cloud and edge computing, precision medicine, public health, telemedicine, patient safety, health political economics, multicultural global ethics, blockchain, and quantum health computing, among other topics. Healthcare and business executives, clinicians, researchers, government leaders, policymakers, and students in the fields of healthcare management, data science, medicine, public health, informatics, health and public policy, political economics, and bioethics will find this book to be a groundbreaking resource on how to create, nourish, and lead AI-driven health systems for the future that can think, adapt, and so care in a manner worthy of the world’s patients." From the publisher's website.

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Treatment Options Before and After Edentulism: Tooth Supported Overdentures / edited by Yasemin Özkan
Springer 2023

"This richly illustrated book presents different treatment protocols in preventive prosthodontics to help clinicians face a widening range of possibilities in partially edentulous patients. The introductory chapter explains the theoretical and technical background as well as clinical considerations for overdenture. Different attachment systems for overdentures are then described in detail covering stud attachments, bar attachments, magnetic and telescopic attachments. The final part of the volume focuses on the clinical evaluation parameters of an overdenture treatment, supporting tooth preparation and post treatment protocol. Throughout the book, much attention is devoted to preventive prosthodontics and the importance of any procedure that can delay or eliminate future prosthodontic problems. Two companion volumes covering treatment options after edentulism, including implant overdenture and implant supported fixed restorations, are available separately." From the publisher's website.

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Clinical Insertion Techniques of Orthodontic Temporary Anchorage Devices / edited by Hu Long, Xianglong Han, Wenli Lai
Wiley 2024

"Clinical Insertion Techniques of Orthodontic Temporary Anchorage Devices is the first comprehensive guide to the clinical insertion techniques for temporary anchorage devices (TADs) and the clinical applications of TADs according to different anatomic regions. It provides detailed clinical insertion instructions and applications, as well as guidance on choosing an optimal insertion site, detailed insertion techniques, and potential complications and their solutions. Divided into five parts, the first covers general considerations, the second explores the techniques at different insertion sites, the third section delves into the clinical applications of miniplates, the fourth delivers the guided insertion of mini-implants, and the fifth section outlines the adverse effects of insertions. The result is a book which brings TADs into orthodontic practice in a rigorous and accessible way.
Clinical Insertion Techniques of Orthodontic Temporary Anchorage Devices readers will also find:

Around 800 photographs and illustrations demonstrating different insertion techniques and clinical applications
Detailed coverage of all maxillary and mandibular regions as potential insertion sites
Design and application guidelines for insertion guides

Clinical Insertion Techniques of Orthodontic Temporary Anchorage Devices is indispensable for orthodontic clinicians looking for a reference on this area of orthodontics." From the publisher's website.

Tooth Whitening: An Evidence-Based Perspective / edited by Jorge Perdigão
Springer 2023

"This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, reviews the evidence relating to the mechanisms, clinical efficacy, safety/toxicity, and clinical application of tooth whitening techniques and materials. All clinical techniques are profusely illustrated step by step. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which explains how tooth whitening with peroxides works and examines the overall safety of peroxides and potential complications. The findings of clinical trials with peroxide-based materials for clinical practice are then examined, with discussion of a wide range of issues in at-home whitening and in-office whitening. The third part focuses on the techniques of enamel microabrasion and resin infiltration, which entail removal of a microscopic layer of enamel and may be used to improve tooth color either alone or in combination with peroxides. The concluding part includes a variety of informative clinical cases using combined bleaching and restorative techniques for discolored teeth. Tooth Whitening — An Evidence-Based Perspective will be of interest for dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and others with an interest in the subject." From the publisher's website.

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Principles and Application of Evidence-based Public Health Practice / edited by Soundappan Kathirvel, Amarjeet Singh and Arun Chockalingam
Elsevier 2023

"Principles and Application of Evidence-Based Public Health Practice helps clinicians who conduct population-based studies in the community be aware of the principles and ethics involved in public health research. Further, the book helps social scientists involved in public health, especially regarding the medical implication of public health practice. Community-based epidemiological research studies are vital for any public health activities, be it evaluation of health programs, health systems strengthening, surveillance or preventive/promotive trials in the community. While hospital/clinic-based research is conducted in a very controlled setting, community trials are more practical.
Community-based studies require a fairly different set of ethical and epidemiological principles to be followed. The same has been reiterated in the ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human subjects released by various national research organizations." From the publisher's website.

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Surgical Research in Implant Dentistry / edited by Michel M. Dard
Springer 2023

"This book explores, in a comprehensive and systematic manner, Surgical Research methodologies to the design and development of investigational studies in the field of implant-based oral rehabilitation. Such studies are linked in a chain binding in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo, and digital evaluations. An ambitious objective consists in exposing how investigators can generate and deliver knowledge by capturing synergy coming from preclinical and clinical trials. Accordingly, throughout the book, translational aspects are closely scrutinized. The opening chapters consider materials, methods and procedures for preclinical and clinical studies in which approaches and models are extensively described. The focus then moves to the process by which application of histology, biomechanics, biomarkers, cellular/molecular biology, and imaging technologies lead to new results and consequently novel treatment concepts in implant dentistry, implant borne prosthetic rehabilitations and the replacement or regeneration of tissues. Finally, the exciting opportunities afforded by the digital world are addressed. This book shall be a valuable resource and time-saving tool for a wide audience of researchers, students, practitioners, and academics." From the publisher's website.

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Integrated Clinical Orthodontics / by Vinod Krishnan, Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
Wiley 2024

"Integrated Clinical Orthodontics offers an overview of clinical orthodontic theory and practice to equip clinicians to take an integrated approach to orthodontic practice. It presents the problems of orthodontics in an interdisciplinary context to describe how the potential complexity of dentofacial problems, the medical histories of patients, and a host of other factors contribute to orthodontic outcomes. The second edition has been expanded and thoroughly updated with new chapters and following an organized approach to the role of the orthodontist as part of a team. Cases in the book include orofacial deformities, sleep disorders, esthetic smile creation and temporomandibular joint problems.
Orthodontic diagnosis and treatment are integrated into the wider health of the patient, including orthopedics, neurology, pediatrics, genetics and psychology, and the result is a modern, adaptable approach that places the patient and their needs at its center to achieve the highest possible standard of patient care.
Readers of the second edition of Integrated Clinical Orthodontics will also find:

New chapters on neuromuscular disorders, customized orthodontics, artificial intelligence, ethics and patient data
Expanded content on special care in dentistry
Guidance for the clinical interactions between orthodontics and other areas of dentistry and medicine
Clinical implications and applications of the integrated approach in every chapter

Integrated Clinical Orthodontics is an essential resource for clinical orthodontists and specialists in related medical and dental fields who wish to take the holistic view of orthodontic practice." From the publisher's website.

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Dental Science for the Medical Professional: An Evidence-Based Approach / edited by Christine E. Niekrash, Elie M. Ferneini, Michael T. Goupil
Springer 2023

"This multi-authored, multi-institutional, and multi-specialty based book is designed as a guide for the medical practitioner on dentistry and dental emergencies. The book is divided into five sections for ease of use: The first section gives an overview of local head and neck anatomy; the second section provides a discussion of potential head and neck infections; the third section discusses important perioral pathology; the fourth section gives an overview on the management of soft and hard tissue trauma; the fifth section discusses some other topics which might be encountered by the medical professional like managing patient anxiety and pain.
Featuring dozens of pictures and diagrams to bring each scenario to life, the editors and contributors utilize their extensive academic experience and prior publication experience with multiple scientific articles and chapters to provide a resource for handling any dental emergency.
Dental Science for the Medical Professional is a must-have resource for multiple medical and surgical professionals including: Primary care physicians, Emergency room physicians, Family physicians, General surgeons, Medical and Dental Students, Urgent care providers, and Mid-level Providers." From the publisher's website.

New Books - March 2024