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BOOK REVIEWS Congenital
Anomalies of the Face and Associated Structures.
University 385 pages.
of Illinois (editor). Price, $13.25.
Springfield,
Ill.,
Samuel Pruzansky, D.D.R., 1961, Charles C Thomas, Publisher.
This test was written by thirty-one authors. As a matter of fact, it represents :I collection of papers presented at a symposium, which had the purpose of bringing togethckl leading experts from the basic and clinical sciences of dentistry, medicine, speech, at111 special education. The human face was examined as a biologic continuum from c>:rrlcep tion through postnatal growth and development to maturity. It was hoped that this study might stimulate new ideas and approaches to the treatment of congenital Illalfortllation~. The editor of the book expressed the hope that the formal presentations rel)riutcfl in these pages will convey to the reader some measure of what was ac.c*omplishotl at thus meeting in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Ii. II. 7’.
The Physiological York,
Regulation
1961, Pergamon
of Salivary
Press.
Secretions in Man.
Alexander
C. Kerr.
Sew
86 pages.
The studies reported here were prompted by interest in the influence OF saliva 011 the oral and dental tissues. The book describes new techniques for stualying tht* outflow of secretion from the glands in response to different intensities of stimulation. ‘I’llr~ stu~l)should interest not only stomatologists but also physiologists and psychologists.
h-. II. T. Oral Exfoliative Government
Cytology. Printing
Veterans Administration. Washington, Office. 74 pages. Price, $1.50.
7). C., l!~tiO. 17. K
The Veterans Administration Hospital of Brooklyn, New York, has studied the cytology of mouth lesions from 1956 to 1959. The monograph, however, includes a omyear study of twelve hospital and outpatient dental services. The table of contents, in addition, lists papers by several quests with broad experience in the disciplines of esThe investigation was started for foliative cytology, oral pathology, and research. several reasons: (1) to test the reliability of exfoliative cytology as a diagnostic tool, (L’) to evaluate the degree of correlation between cytologic and biopsy findings, and (3) to The teehniclue of taking specistimulate dentists to concentrate upon cancer detection.
mens is appended. li. Ii. T. Les hbmangiomes Travail
de la mandibule.
de la Facult(!
de Medicine
Michel Donazzan. de I,ille, France.
Doctoral thesis, 1961. So. 117 pages, 21 illustrations.
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Of the fifty such tumors reThe author describes a rare tumor of thr marltlible. Dr. Donazzan ported in the literature, only thirt.>--one have Bern desrriljed in detail. recognizes capillary henlangioma of the l~seudoc?.stic type, \vhich may be removed I)> surgical curettage, and extensive cavernous types in whicvtr the slightest trauma map
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Les
cancers du massif maxillaire superieur. 3Zasson Rs Cie. 260 pages, 57 illustrations.
1’:(:. Hues 511 LYE’.
~(1
S. Srefani.
I’aris;
I!1lil.
This monograph analyzes 248 malignant tumors-epitheliomas, sarcoula.q, and mela. Ilcllllas-ill\,olving the middle face, that is, the maxilla, nasal cavity, and maxiIlar> sinus. Benign tumors and premalignancies ~erc esclndcd. Them tumors WPW olaserved and c’ourse, t.reated at the Gustave Rouvsy Institute from 1922 to 1Hri.i. FrequencaJ-, clinical The authors propose n classification oi‘ methods of diagnosis, and treatment are discussed. -\ rich hihliog. ~~pitheliomas according to the topography and extension of the disease. raphhy is appended. Ii. (I. T.
Aesthetik
und Rehabilitation
Heidelberg,
1961, Alfred
in der Zahnheilkunde. Hiithig
Verlag.
Fritz
Schiin azlll t*‘ritz
Singer.
214 pages, 359 illustrations.
This book, as the authors point out in the preface, might l)e callelI “Theory and Prartice of MaxilIofacixl Rehabilitation by Means of Prosthetic, Orthodontic, and Surgical J\Teans.” Each specialist should know what cannob l)e achieved in his field of endeavor, as The I)ook is well written, well illms\Yrll as what other specialists are nhlc to accomplish. t v:i ted, and interesting. h’ 11 T