This accessible guide is structured around the systems of the body and covers all major diseases and conditions with their aetiology, symptoms, and treatments. The focus is on the relevance of particular diseases and their drug treatment in relation to dentistry and patient dental management.

This vital resource:

• Promotes a better understanding of how to provide effective dental treatment to patients affected by diseases
• Presents illustrative examples and helpful clinical photographs throughout
• Includes a new chapter on the importance of understanding shock
• Features self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter, and a companion website hosting downloadable images from the book

Essentials of Human Disease in Dentistry, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for undergraduate dentistry students as well as newly qualified dentists preparing for the MFDS exam.

Author Information

Mark Greenwood is an NHS Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as well as Honorary Clinical Professor of Medical Education in Dentistry at the School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University, UK. Qualified in both medicine and dentistry, he has been published in many peer reviewed journals and has co-authored two books on general medicine and surgery for dental practitioners.