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A Clinical Guide to Advanced Minimum Intervention Restorative Dentistry
Professor Avijit Banerjee
Advisory price: £59.99
308 pages
ISBN-10: 0443109710
ISBN-13: 978-0443109713
Publisher: Elsevier, 2024
This new, 2024 textbook is already top of our reading list for undergraduate dental therapy and dentistry students, as well as postgraduate students. At undergraduate level, no matter the year group, there is something for all oral healthcare team members in this new essential text book. It carries on where the author's previous recommended contribution, Pickard's Guide to Minimally Invasive Operative Dentistry (10th edition) left off. While the new title alludes to advanced minimum intervention restorative dentistry for students, the opening chapter on dental hard tissue pathologies provides the foundation stone of dentistry and dental hygiene/therapy, so couldn't be a more essential read for all members of the oral healthcare team.
The textbook progresses from chapter to chapter in a logical, informative and structured manner. What is most striking about this textbook is that virtually from the first page, the quality and number of clinical images is absolutely outstanding. That virtually every page has an image to complement the text perfectly, is testament to the author's extensive clinical and scientific experience in the discipline of cariology and minimally invasive operative dentistry. The text is a prime example of contemporary evidence-based dentistry being applied to minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) clinical practice in an effective, prevention-based, susceptibility-related, team-delivered and person-focused manner.
In later chapters, there is an increasing number of technical operative details and biomaterials coverage for the postgraduate reader, be they general dental practitioner, dental therapist, or even working at specialist level. The range is quite incredible, from useful sections on instrumentation to clinical minimally invasive operative protocols, including a ‘Nayyar core’ build-up. The step-by-step clinical images, as mentioned already, are outstanding and while the posterior bonded amalgam restoration (which is beautifully captured) may become a thing of the past, but still may be relevant to international readers, the fantastic section on matrices future-proofs the clinician for the postamalgam era.
Another outstanding feature of this textbook is the range and quality of the self-test questions that allow the reader to reflect and reinforce learning. Similarly, the sections in chapter 2 highlighting the role of each team member, from dental nurse to reception staff, really emphasize a whole team approach to delivering best clinical care, an inclusive approach to managing patients, and is refreshing to see.
In summary, this textbook is essential reading for the whole oral healthcare team, and the author has to be complemented in bringing text and images together to make this an enjoyable and interesting read, with the knowledge imparted essential for contemporary phased patient care pathways for those caring for patients in primary care.