Using the popular question and answer format of The Secrets Series, this helpful mini reference offers practical tips, answers, and secrets from experts specializing in various areas of oral medicine. The evaluation, management, diagnosis, and treatment of various oral diseases arecovered. Topics include cardiovascular disease, bacterial endocarditis, endocrine disease, pregnancy, pulmonary disease, gastrointestinal disease, neurologic disease, diseases of the salivary glands and much more.

Chapters on oral cancer detection and management as well as the pharmacology of drugs used in dentistry are also included.

SECTION I: Patient Assessment
1: History, Physical and Laboratory Evaluation
2: Diagnosis of Oral Disease

SECTION II: Evaluation and management of medically compromised patients
3: Evaluation and management of patients with cardiovascular disease
4: Evaluation and management of the patient at risk for bacterial endocarditis
5: Evaluation and management of the patient with endocrine disease
6: Dental considerations and management during pregnancy
7: Evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary disease
8: Evaluation and management of patients with gastrointestinal disease
9: Evaluation and management of the patient with hematologic disease
10: Dental considerations and management in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy
11: Evaluation and management of patients with joint disease
12: Evaluation and management of patients with renal dysfunction
13: Oral manifestations of HIV infection and dental management of infected patients
14: Evaluation and management of patients with neurologic diseases
15: Evaluation and management of the patient with psychiatric disease

SECTION III: Diagnosis and treatment of oral disease
16: Evaluation and management of oral mucosal diseases
17: Oral cancer detection and management
18: Diseases of the salivary glands
19: Evaluation and management of oral infections
20: Evaluation and management of orofacial pain disorders
21: Pharmacology of drugs used in dentistry

By Stephen T Sonis, DMD, DMSc, Chief, Div. of Dentistry, Brigham and Women's Hosp., Boston, MA; Assoc. Prof. of Oral Med., and Oral Pathology, Harvard School of Dental Med., Boston, MA; Assoc. Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Robert C Fazio, DMD, Asst. Clinical Prof. of Surgery, Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Attending Periodontist, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; Attending Periodontist, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT; and Leslie Fang, MD, PhD, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA