Treating soft tissue oral disease in everyday dental practice

The ADA Practical Guide to Soft Tissue Oral Disease is a tool to aid in identifying, diagnosing, and treating soft tissue oral disease in everyday clinical practice. This 247-page guide directs readers through screening examinations, description and documentation, and differential diagnosis. Readers also can review guidelines for observation and referral using color photos, case studies and discussion, and synopses of best current treatments based on up‐to‐date literature.

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Some highlights of the guide include:

• Basic information on how to most effectively and efficiently perform a complete and thorough head and neck soft tissue screening examination.

• An overview of the top 40 oral soft tissue lesions, as well as several less common but life‐threatening conditions such as oral cancer and infections.

• More than 60 brief patient clinical scenarios with diagnostic exercises.

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Ideal as a clinical handbook or review guide, The ADA Practical Guide to Soft Tissue Oral Disease (P033) is $59.95 for ADA members and $89.95 retail. To order, call (800) 947-4746 or visit adacatalog.org.

For more information about the American Dental Association, visit their website.