Shafer's Textbook of Oral Pathology - eBook

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The periodic and timely revisions of Shafer's Textbook of Oral Pathology have brought out a treatise, well conceived and written with the aim of updating students all necessary nuances of the specialty..

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The scope of the present edition is an extension of this goal aimed at understanding the disease processes at more fundamental level, the impetus being those in the maxillofacial region. The book highlights the etiopathogenesis and clinical presentation of oral diseases and focuses on a variety of diseases commonly encountered in clinical practice.Salient FeaturesExtensively revised and updated chaptersTemporomandibular Joint Diseases section completely rewrittenPhysical and Chemical Injuries of the Oral Cavity chapter updatedExtensive revision of Dental Caries and Forensic Odontology chaptersAdvanced information scattered throughout the book in highlighted boxesNew to this editionGeneral account on stem cells with particular reference to odontogenic stem cellsHistological grading of oral squamous cell carcinomaGenetic basis of oral cancerAdenocarcinoma NOSReclassification of odontogenic keratocyst into neoplasmLichenoid reactionBisphosphonate therapyHematopoietic stem cellLaboratory findings of SLEInfluence of decalcification in tissue processing and additional account on hard tissue processing