High-quality dental patient management demands an appropriately skilled team. It is the general dental practitioner's responsibility to co-ordinate the team and to take overall responsibility as the team leader. Your team provides all the specialities necessary to achieve a stable, functional, aesthetic masticatory unit, which not only encompasses the management of periodontal disease, but integrates a treatment plan the patient can maintain.

Contents

Chapter 1 The Periodontal Team
Chapter 2 Medicolegal Aspects of Employing Professionals Complementary to Dentistry
Chapter 3 Working Together
Chapter 4 Selecting Surgery Equipment for the Dental Hygienist
Chapter 5 Prevention of Oral Disease I: Periodontal Disease
Chapter 6 Prevention of Oral Disease II: Diseases of the Hard Tissues
Chapter 7 Management of Periodontal Diseases
Chapter 8 Orthodontics and Periodontal Health
Chapter 9 Occlusion of Relation to Periodontal Disease
Chapter 10 Periodontal-Restorative Interface
Index