Preface ix
List of Contributors xi
1 Introduction to Oral Medicine and Oral Diagnosis: Patient Evaluation 1
Michael Glick, Martin S. Greenberg, Peter B. Lockhart, and Stephen J. Challacombe
2 Overview of Clinical Research 19
Dena J. Fischer, Darien Weatherspoon, and Mary A. Cutting
3 Ulcerative, Vesicular, and Bullous Lesions 35
Sook Bin Woo, Jane F. Setterfield, and Martin S. Greenberg
4 Red and White Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 85
Ivan Alajbeg, Stephen J. Challacombe, Palle Holmstrup, and Mats Jontell
5 Pigmented Lesions of the Oral Mucosa 139
Alfredo Aguirre, Faizan Alawi, and Jose Luis Tapia
6 Benign Lesions of the Oral Cavity and the Jaws 171
A. Ross Kerr and Denise A. Trochesset
7 Head and Neck Cancer 211
Amber L. Watters, Heidi J. Hansen, Ashish A. Patel, and Joel Epstein
8 Oral Complications of Nonsurgical Cancer Therapies 259
Siri Beier Jensen and Douglas E. Peterson
9 Salivary Gland Diseases 281
Leah M. Bowers, Arjan Vissink, and Michael T. Brennan
10 Temporomandibular Disorders 349
Richard Ohrbach, Thomas Sollecito, Temitope Omolehinwa, and Martin S. Greenberg
11 Neuropathic Orofacial Pain 419
Olga A. Korczeniewska, Katherine France, Junad Khan, Martin S. Greenberg, Rafael Benoliel, and Eliav Eli
12 Common Headache Disorders 453
Pei Feng Lim, Scott De Rossi, and Massimiliano Di Giosia
13 Diseases of the Respiratory Tract 469
Lyvia Y. Leigh, Patrick Vannelli, Heidi C. Crow, Sandhya Desai, Mark Lepore, Robert Anolik, and Michael Glick
14 Diseases of the Cardiovascular System 505
Peter B. Lockhart and Yee-Ping Sun
15 Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract 553
Jeremy Sanderson and Michael P. Escudier
16 Renal Diseases 579
Karo Parsegian, Ruchir Trivedi, and Effie Ioannidou
17 Hematologic Diseases 627
Vidya Sankar and Alessandro Villa
18 Bleeding and Clotting Disorders 665
Joel J. Napeñas and Lauren L. Patton
19 Immunologic Diseases 705
Vasileios Ionas Theofilou, Joanne Konkel, Nikolaos G. Nikitakis, and Niki M. Moutsopoulos
20 Transplantation Medicine 745
Sharon Elad, Marie Laryea, and Noam Yarom
21 Infectious Diseases 785
Michael J. Durkin, Noha Seoudi, and Raj Nair
22 Disorders of the Endocrine System and of Metabolism 817
Mark Schifter, Mark McLean, and Suma Sukumar
23 Neurologic Diseases 903
Eric T. Stoopler and Michael L. McGarvey
24 Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Oral Health 933
J. Tim Newton and Beth J. Guildford
25 Pediatric Oral Medicine 943
Catherine Hong and Christel M. Haberland
26 Geriatric Oral Medicine 991
Katharine Ciarrocca and Christine Downey
27 The Role of Genetics in Oral Medicine 1009
Olga A. Korczeniewska, Thomas C. Hart, and Scott R. Diehl
28 Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Pathology 1037
Brian C. Muzyka, John Christie, and Bobby Collins
29 How to Identify, Interpret and Apply the Scientific Literature to Practice 1059
Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Malavika Tampi, Olivia Urquhart, Scott Howell, Austin Booth, and Michael Glick
Index 1080