Avoiding and Treating Dental Complications: Best Practices in Dentistry

Complications from dental procedures are inevitable and encountered by all dental professionals. Best Practices in Dentistry: Avoiding and Treating Complications is designed to address proper management of these situations in everyday practice.

With contributions written by experts in their respective fields, Best Practices in Dentistry is an evidence–based guide to the most successful treatment methods and management of complications across a broad range of dental problems. Chapters are devoted to restorative dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, prosthodontics, oral surgery, anesthesia, implants, pediatric dentistry, and orthodontics.

Covers a range of dental issues and complications found in daily practice Written by experts in each specialty Tables and charts for quick information Clinical photographs and radiographs

Chapter 1 Best Practices: Restorative Complications
Richard G. Stevenson

Chapter 2 Periodontal Complications
Deborah A. Termeie and Paulo M. Camargo

Chapter 3 Endodontic Complications
Shane N. White and Daniel J. Boehne

Chapter 4: Prosthodontics complications
Thomas S. Giugliano

Chapter 5: Oral Surgery Complications
Shahrokh C. Bagheri, Behnam Bohluli and Roger A. Meyer

6: Complications of local anesthesia, sedation, and general anesthesia
James W. Tom

Chapter 7 Implant Complications
Deborah A. Termeie and Daniel W. Nelson

Chapter 8 Pediatric Dentistry Complications and Challenges
Rebecca L. Slayton

Chapter 9 Orthodontics: Preventing & Treating Complications
Hung V. Vu

Deborah Termeie, DDS, is Clinical Instructor in Periodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry and maintains an active private practice in Los Angeles. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Termeie has written several peer–reviewed journal articles and is the author of the best–selling textbook Periodontal Review.