Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology, 7th Edition (pdf)
Author : Arya Rajendran, Shivapatha Sundaram
Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology, 7th Edition (pdf)
The periodic and timely revisions of Shafer’s Textbook of Oral Pathology have brought out a treatise, well conceived and written with the aim of updating students all necessary nuances of the specialty. The scope of the present edition is an extension of this goal aimed at understanding the disease processes at more fundamental level, the impetus being those in the maxillofacial region. The book highlights the etiopathogenesis and clinical presentation of oral diseases and focuses on a variety of diseases commonly encountered in clinical practice.
Salient Features
Extensively revised and updated chapters
Temporomandibular Joint Diseases section completely rewritten
Physical and Chemical Injuries of the Oral Cavity chapter updated
Extensive revision of Dental Caries and Forensic Odontology chapters
Advanced information scattered throughout the book in highlighted boxes
New to this edition
General account on stem cells with particular reference to odontogenic stem cells
Histological grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma
Genetic basis of oral cancer
Adenocarcinoma NOS
Reclassification of odontogenic keratocyst into neoplasm
Lichenoid reaction
Bisphosphonate therapy
Hematopoietic stem cell
Laboratory findings of SLE
Influence of decalcification in tissue processing and additional account on hard tissue processing