A step-by-step guide to practical care planning and management of a wide variety of clinical case scenarios encountered in the primary and secondary dental care setting. Covering all the core aspects of oral health care delivery, Clinical Problem Solving in Dentistry 4th edition is a great value resource useful to all general dental practitioners and dental therapists, both qualified and in training, undergraduates or postgraduates alike.

• Explores care planning and treatment alternatives and evaluates their advantages and disadvantages as well as medico-legal implications

• Integrates material from all the dental disciplines in order to cover an extensive range of clinical problems which will be encountered in daily practice

• A practical approach to learning – includes a large number of real-life clinical cases including those relevant to new techniques and issues such as implantology, use of CAD-CAM, CBCT (cone beam computed tomography)

• Designed to help the reader use the knowledge gained in a clinically useful, practically applied format

• Highly visual guide with more than 350 colour illustrations, artwork and tables presenting clinical, diagnostic and practical information in an easy-to-follow structure

Contents

Case 1 A High-Caries-Rate/High-Risk Patient
Case 2 A Multilocular Radiolucency
Case 3 An Unpleasant Surprise
Case 4 Gingival Recession
Case 5 Multiple Missing Anterior Teeth and a Class III Incisor Relationship
Case 6 An Unsettled Patient
Case 7 A Dry Mouth
Case 8 Painful Trismus
Case 9 A Deep Carious Lesion
Case 10 A Lump On the Gingiva
Case 11 Pain On Biting
Case 12 CAD/CAM Fixed Prosthodontics
Case 13 Sudden Collapse
Case 14 A Difficult Young Child
Case 15 Pain After Extraction
Case 16 A Numb Lip
Case 17 A Loose Anterior Tooth
Case 18 Oroantral Fistula
Case 19 Troublesome Mouth Ulcers
Case 20 A Lump in the Neck
Case 21 Trauma Causing Displacement of an Upper Central Incisor
Case 22 Hypoglycaemia
Case 23 A Tooth Lost At Teatime
Case 24 A Problem Overdenture
Case 25 Impacted Lower Third Molars
Case 26 A Patient Presenting with an Avulsed Central Incisor
Case 27 Discoloured Anterior Teeth
Case 28 A Very Painful Mouth
Case 29 Caution! – X-Rays
Case 30 Whose Fault is It This Time?
Case 31 Ouch!
Case 32 A Swollen Face and Pericoronitis
Case 33 First Permanent Molars
Case 34 A Sore Mouth
Case 35 A Failed Bridge
Case 36 Skateboarding Accident?
Case 37 An Adverse Reaction
Case 38 Advanced Periodontitis
Case 39 Fractured Incisors
Case 40 An Anxious Patient
Case 41 Blisters in the Mouth
Case 42 Will You See My Son?
Case 43 Bridge Design
Case 44 Anticoagulation for a Prosthetic Heart Valve
Case 45 A White Patch On the Tongue
Case 46 Another White Patch On the Tongue
Case 47 Molar Endodontic Treatment
Case 48 An Endodontic Problem
Case 49 A Swollen Face
Case 50 Missing Upper Lateral Incisors
Case 51 Anterior Crossbite (Class III Malocclusion) with Displacement in the Mixed Dentition
Case 52 Localized Periodontitis?
Case 53 Unexpected Findings
Case 54 A Gap Between the Front Teeth
Case 55 A Lump in the Palate
Case 56 Rapid Breakdown of First Permanent Molars (Molar-Incisor Hypomineralization)
Case 57 Oral Cancer
Case 58 A Complicated Extraction
Case 59 Difficulty Opening the Mouth
Case 60 Erosive Tooth Wear
Case 61 Worn Front Teeth
Case 62 A Case of Toothache
Case 63 A Child with a Swollen Face
Case 64 Recurrent Neck Swelling
Case 65 Failed Endodontic Treatment
Case 66 A Pain in the Head
Case 67 Aggressive Tooth Decay
Case 68 ShouldIRepair or Replace These Restorations?- the ‘5 Rs’
Case 69 Implant Planning
Case 70 Domiciliary Care
Case 71 Managing Complaints
Case 72 Loose Dentures/Resorbed Ridge Form
Case 73 Invisible Custom-Made Braces’
Case 74 Swollen Lips
Case 75 Failing Implant Restoration