Tag: KARGER

Editor(s): Sigrun Eick Description: Biofilms are highly organized polymicrobial communities that are embedded in an extracellular matrix and formed on natural and artificial surfaces. In the oral cavity, biofilms are formed not only on natural teeth, but also on restorative…

Editor(s): F. Schwendicke Jo Frencken N. Innes Description: Currently there is no reason, in most cases of cavitated caries lesions, to remove affected tissue. This book presents evidence-based research on the topic and provides assessments of diagnostic devices. It offers…

Practical Tips to Minimize Complications Editor(s): Dias, F.L. Fliss, D. Lima, R.A. Myers, E.N. Wei, W.I. Description: In this unique volume leading international experts share their experience in the management of head and neck tumors. The purpose of this publication…

Editor(s): A. Lussi Bern M.C.D.N.J.M. Huysmans H.-P. Weber Description: Health professionals are more and more aware of the importance of saliva for oral health and well-being. As saliva secretion is steadily compromised with advancing age, it becomes a factor of…

Editor(s): C. van Loveren Description: With the mass-marketed introduction of fluoride in toothpaste in the 1950s, toothbrushing with paste became indispensable for good oral health. Both the industry and the dental profession had a shared interest in advocating the widespread correct use…

Editors: Marcela Rocha de Olivera Carrilho (São Paulo) Description: A timely issue increasingly affecting the oral health balanceCase reports and clinical trials conducted in various countries show, more and more frequently, a positive correlation between the presence of original teeth and…

Authors: A. Kantarci  L. Will  S. Yen Description: New research in accelerated orthodontics With the intention of improving the rate, quality, and stability of orthodontic tooth movement, those in the field are now moving toward accomplishing this ‘acceleration’ with minimally…

An excellent source of up-to-date information by leading authorities in the field. Editor: D.P. Rice Description: Sutures are more than just fibrous joints between the bones in our skull. They are active growth sites that influence the development, growth and…

Editors D.F. KinaneA. Mombelli Description: Our understanding of the etiopathology of periodontal disease has changed greatly over the last decade. The huge diversity of species within the microbial biofilm and the enormous multi-layered complexity of the innate, inflammatory and adaptive…

Authors:  J. Klijanienko ;  P. Vielh Description: This monograph is based on a detailed review of more than 1,600 aspiration cytology biopsies of salivary gland tumors, including even rare entities, which were collected over a period of 45 years at…

Editors: J.R. Garrett, London J. Ekstro¨m, Go¨ teborg L.C. Anderson, Seattle, Wash Description: The essential roles of autonomic nerves and their transmitters in the control of saliva secretion.Saliva is essential for oral health and influences all events in the mouth….

Author: Martyn T. Cobourne …Cleft lip and palate is a complex, multifactorial and relatively common craniofacial disorder, which arises because of disrupted facial development in the embryo. The manifestations of this condition can be life-long and associated with significant morbidity….

Editors: Koppe, T. (Greifswald) Meyer, G. (Greifswald) Alt, K.W. (Mainz) Brook, A. (Liverpool) Dean, M.C. (London) Kjaer, I. (Copenhagen) Lukacs, J.R. (Eugene, OR) Smith, B.H. (Ann Arbor, MI) Teaford, M.F. (Baltimore, MD) Providing a broad picture on current aspects of…

Editor: Nigel Pitts Description: The International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) offers clinical criteria and codes, together with a framework to support and enable personalized comprehensive caries management for improved long-term health outcome. Based on the ICDAS, this publication…

Editor: R.V. Faller Description: This book is a compilation of new and innovative techniques for the assessment and characterization of orally important conditions such as caries, periodontal diseases and calculus. It also gives recommendations for the validation of new methods….

Volume 2 – Basic and Clinical Aspects Author(s): Gordon Nikiforuk Description: Caries, because of its uniqueness as a disease, its ubiquitous nature, and its stubborn resistance to resolution remains as one of man’s most common, oldest, and singly costliest ailment….

Volume 1 – Basic and Clinical Aspects Author(s): Gordon Nikiforuk Description: Early in the genesis of this book, it became apparent that one person cannot assimilate all the literature on dental caries. However, the visible fragmentation and isolation of chapters,…

Editor: Adrian Lussi Description: Erosive Tooth Wear Erosive tooth wear is a multifactorial condition of growing concern to the clinician and is a subject of extensive research. This book is the first which deals in such detail with dental erosion….

Integrating Research into Clinical Management Editors: Türp, J.C.Sommer, C.Hugger, A. Description: Indispensable for an advanced understanding of orofacial pain. In recent years, progress in pain research has yielded substantial new insights, and this has profoundly altered our understanding of various…