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principles, techniques appropriate to the use of the dental X-ray set, and a section dealing with techniques outside the scope of the normal dental X-ray unit. The book is well produced and,with yellowcovers, links in with the colour of conventional radiation signs. The layout, print and graphics are attractively presented and the illustrations themselves are clear and easily understood. Reproduction of intra-oral tihns on the whole is good though the quality of some extra-oral prints is variable and they are consistently too small in size. The section on radiation physics is useful and contains some enlightening paragraphs on the relationship between the Roentgen, the Rad, the Rem and S.I. units. It also deals sensibly and practically with radiation hazards and radiation protection. Necessarily in a book of only 132 pages, details of techniques must be abbreviated, but good coverage is given to the various intra-oral views with a helpful section on ccchtsal radiography. An enlightening chapter on tomography has been included with clear explanatory diagrams and another chapter deals with dental pantomography. A further chapter has a brief but useful explanation of the various other extra-oral films which the student or general practitioner is likely to encounter. There are obvious omissions in this section but it should be borne in mind that the book is primarily designed for the undergraduate student. The text is clear and readable and the book can only be a help to undergraduate students and probably to many radiologists of more years’ standing. It will certainly be a very useful book to add to the bench collections of departments of radiology. VINCENTTAYLOR Oral Disease. Edited by C. E. RENSON.London: Update Publications Ltd., 1978, pp. 96, price E6.20 ($5.50 for callers). Nine contributors have joined in producing this book. It is based on a series of articles which appeared in Update and which were intended to give medical practitioners an insight into dental and oral disease. It presents basic knowledge of the diseases found in the mouth and, as such, its editor believes it will be useful to dental students, operating dental ancillaries and dental practitioners. The book contains fourteen chapters, and an index, in 86 pages. It is illustrated in colour and deals with developmental defects of the mouth and jaws, diseases of the teeth and supporting structures, diseases of the oral mucosa, neoplasms in the mouth and diseases of the throat. The usefulness of the book depends on its colour photographs and many of these are excellent and interesting. However, a few are of poor quality, or are not typical of the disorder they purport to illustrate. The colour photographs are accompanied by a text which provides abbreviated accounts of the diseases illustrated. There is occasional repetition and much information essential to the diagnostician and person treating the disorder is omitted. This book will interest the student or practitioner, medical or dental, who wishes to revise the clinical appearances of some oral diseases. It will provide the medical practitioner with insight of the diversity of oral disease and of the general field of dentistry. Indeed in this way the articles fulfill their original purpose. However, the book does not provide comprehensive coverage in text or illustrations of oral diseases nor does its text provide su&ient information for the diagnosis or treatment of these. One sympathises with the editor in attempting to satisfy a wide medical and dental audience and he can take comfort in the quality of the collections of photographs he has drawn together. J.H. JONES Pediatric Oral and Maxlllofaclal Surgery. By BRUCESANDERS.St Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1979, pp. 606, price 637.50. This new book aims to fill a void by bringing together the current medical and dental literature relating to oral and maxillofacial surgery in children. The 15 chapters have been written by 17 authors, most of whom are from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of California at Los Angeles. There is a certain lack of balance, however, as only four of the contributors are oral or maxillofacial surgeons. As well as the more conventional chapter headings, it is refreshing to find such titles as Excessive Drooling, Psychosocial considerations, and Common Pediatric Medical Disorders Complicating Surgery. The chapter on Morphology, Growth and Maturation is well written, and presents most of the controversial issues in a balanced and concise manner. Facial Injuries are comprehensively described in one of the best chapters in the book. Infections are fairly well covered, but few experienced clinicians in the United Kingdom would
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principles, techniques appropriate to the use of the dental X-ray set, and a section dealing with techniques outside the scope of the normal dental X-ray unit. The book is well produced and,with yellowcovers, links in with the colour of conventional radiation signs. The layout, print and graphics are attractively presented and the illustrations themselves are clear and easily understood. Reproduction of intra-oral tihns on the whole is good though the quality of some extra-oral prints is variable and they are consistently too small in size. The section on radiation physics is useful and contains some enlightening paragraphs on the relationship between the Roentgen, the Rad, the Rem and S.I. units. It also deals sensibly and practically with radiation hazards and radiation protection. Necessarily in a book of only 132 pages, details of techniques must be abbreviated, but good coverage is given to the various intra-oral views with a helpful section on ccchtsal radiography. An enlightening chapter on tomography has been included with clear explanatory diagrams and another chapter deals with dental pantomography. A further chapter has a brief but useful explanation of the various other extra-oral films which the student or general practitioner is likely to encounter. There are obvious omissions in this section but it should be borne in mind that the book is primarily designed for the undergraduate student. The text is clear and readable and the book can only be a help to undergraduate students and probably to many radiologists of more years’ standing. It will certainly be a very useful book to add to the bench collections of departments of radiology. VINCENTTAYLOR Oral Disease. Edited by C. E. RENSON.London: Update Publications Ltd., 1978, pp. 96, price E6.20 ($5.50 for callers). Nine contributors have joined in producing this book. It is based on a series of articles which appeared in Update and which were intended to give medical practitioners an insight into dental and oral disease. It presents basic knowledge of the diseases found in the mouth and, as such, its editor believes it will be useful to dental students, operating dental ancillaries and dental practitioners. The book contains fourteen chapters, and an index, in 86 pages. It is illustrated in colour and deals with developmental defects of the mouth and jaws, diseases of the teeth and supporting structures, diseases of the oral mucosa, neoplasms in the mouth and diseases of the throat. The usefulness of the book depends on its colour photographs and many of these are excellent and interesting. However, a few are of poor quality, or are not typical of the disorder they purport to illustrate. The colour photographs are accompanied by a text which provides abbreviated accounts of the diseases illustrated. There is occasional repetition and much information essential to the diagnostician and person treating the disorder is omitted. This book will interest the student or practitioner, medical or dental, who wishes to revise the clinical appearances of some oral diseases. It will provide the medical practitioner with insight of the diversity of oral disease and of the general field of dentistry. Indeed in this way the articles fulfill their original purpose. However, the book does not provide comprehensive coverage in text or illustrations of oral diseases nor does its text provide su&ient information for the diagnosis or treatment of these. One sympathises with the editor in attempting to satisfy a wide medical and dental audience and he can take comfort in the quality of the collections of photographs he has drawn together. J.H. JONES Pediatric Oral and Maxlllofaclal Surgery. By BRUCESANDERS.St Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1979, pp. 606, price 637.50. This new book aims to fill a void by bringing together the current medical and dental literature relating to oral and maxillofacial surgery in children. The 15 chapters have been written by 17 authors, most of whom are from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of California at Los Angeles. There is a certain lack of balance, however, as only four of the contributors are oral or maxillofacial surgeons. As well as the more conventional chapter headings, it is refreshing to find such titles as Excessive Drooling, Psychosocial considerations, and Common Pediatric Medical Disorders Complicating Surgery. The chapter on Morphology, Growth and Maturation is well written, and presents most of the controversial issues in a balanced and concise manner. Facial Injuries are comprehensively described in one of the best chapters in the book. Infections are fairly well covered, but few experienced clinicians in the United Kingdom would