Pickard's Guide to Minimally Invasive Operative Dentistry

Description

An ideal introduction to conservative dentistry, the tenth edition is a must-have text for dental students. Written in an easy-to-understand style and illustrated with step-by-step colour photos, this text explains both essential theory and practice.

• A well-loved and essential dentistry text, this is ideal for use across dentistry and oral professional courses, from the beginning undergraduate to graduate level
• A unique blend of core dental science and practical skills
• Operative procedures are clearly demonstrated through step-by-step image sequences
• Questions throughout chapters, with end of chapter answers, allow readers to check their understanding as they progress
• Clinical tips appear throughout the text to bring theory to life

New to this edition

• A focus on maintaining existing restorations and follow up/long term care.
• New Chapter on 'Principles of managing the badly broken down tooth'
• QR codes aid navigation to further reading sources

About the Author(s)

Avijit Banerjee, Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute, Guy's Dental Hospital, London, UK, and Timothy F. Watson, Professor of Biomaterials and Restorative Dentistry, King's College London Dental Institute, Guy's Dental Hospital, London, UK

Avijit Banerjee is Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry, Hon. Consultant and Clinical Lead, Restorative Dentistry at the KCL Dental Institute / Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK. He is Head of Conservative & MI Dentistry and has established the innovative distance-learning masters in Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry (AMID) at KCL. He is an internationally renowned lecturer, teacher, author and scientific researcher and he maintains a clinical practice in the hospital as well as private practice.

Timothy F. Watson is Professor of Biomaterials and Restorative Dentistry and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at KCL Dental Institute/ Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK. He is European Board Member for the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and the past President of the British Society for Oral and Dental Research (NSODR).

Table of Contents

1:Dental hard tissue pathologies: aetiology and clinical manifestations
2:Clinical detection: 'information gathering'
3:Diagnosis, prognosis, care planning: 'information processing'
4:Disease control and lesion prevention
5:The essentials of minimally invasive operative dentistry
6:Principles of managing the badly broken down tooth
7:Restorative materials and their relationship with tooth structure
8:Clinical operative procedures - a step-by-step guide
9:The long term management of direct restorations

Reviews

Review from previous edition "Pickard's" has been and in my opinion still is the authoritative text on simple operative dentistry and should find a place on the shelves of all undergraduate dental students, student hygiene/therapists and student dental nurses. - British Dental Journal