Book review

This well-structured, easily accessible text on Oral Medicine is clearly written and illustrated with high quality clinical photographs.

The 17 chapters, which run to over 120 pages, cover topics including oral ulceration, salivary gland disease, halitosis, white, red and pigmented lesions, orofacial sensation, movement and pain and also lumps and swellings at various orofacial anatomical sites. Additionally, the book benefits from significant radiology content, with 4 of the 17 chapters addressing radiological aspects of bone disease, odontogenic cysts and tumours and antral disease. The inclusion of this amount of radiological detail is relatively unusual in an Oral Medicine text, and is a valuable feature of this book.

Topics are generally discussed under the headings of aetiopathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, investigations and management. As well as the helpful clinical photographs, there are numerous summary boxes, providing quickly accessible key points and other salient details. The authors cite useful references to websites and patient information.