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DescriptionThis book is a complete guide to oral diseases common in tropical environments.Divided into five main sections, the book begins with an overview of the epidemiology of health and disease in the tropics, followed by anthropological and environmental factors affecting oral health in these regions.The following section discusses the diagnosis and management of both infectious and non-infectious tropical diseases, including bacterial infections and their causes, and disorders due to poor nutrition, anaemia, and bleeding and endocrine problems.Section four covers oral and salivary gland neoplasms and the final chapters describe numerous other oral and dental diseases in the tropics. An appendices section provides advice to travellers visiting tropical regions and normal reference values for practitioners.Edited by an internationally recognised team of experts, predominantly from Australia, this comprehensive text is highly illustrated with more than 500 clinical images, diagrams and tables.Key FeaturesPresents the full range of oral diseases encountered in the tropicsFills a long-felt need in dental and medical literature with 70 international experts contributing to 61 chaptersIncludes the following specialities-oral pathology, oral medicine, oral biology, oral immunology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dermatology, plastic surgery, cancer research, general medicine, epidemiology, microbiology, tropical diseases and their geographical extentEmphasizes those diseases that are common in the tropic or those diseases that exhibit features which reflect the tropicalPresents a systematic and thorough source of information divided into five sections:Section 1 deals with general disease trends in the tropical regions;Section 2 discusses anthropological and cultural aspects of oral diseases in the tropicsSection 3 deals with tropical diseases and their oral manifestationsSection 4 deals with oral and salivary gland neoplastic diseases in the tropicsSection 5 deals with the tropical experience of the universally occurring oral diseases, dental caries and periodontal diseases.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: Health and Disease in the TropicsThe Tropical EnvironmentThe Epidemiology of Health and Disease in the TropicsThe Science of EpidemiologySECTION 2: Anthropological, Environmental, andCultural Aspects of Tropical Oral HealthPhysical Growth and Adaptation in the Tropics with Special Reference to the Craniofacial StructuresAnthropological Aspects of Dental Morphology with Special Reference to Tropical PopulationsVariability of Occlusal Traits in Tropical PopulationsEndemic Dental FluorosisDisorders due to Tropical ClimatesTraditional, Cultural, and Ritual Practices Involving the Teeth and Orofacial Soft TissuesSECTION 3: Tropical Diseases and their Oral ManifestationsInfectious Diseases in the TropicsHelminthic DiseasesProtozoal InfectionsFungal InfectionsBacterial Infections due to CocciBacterial Infections due to MycobacteriaBacterial Infections due to SpirochetesBacterial Infections due to Actinomyces and NocardiaBacterial Infections due to CorynebacteriaBacterial Infections due to ClostridiaBacterial Infections due to Enterobacteriaceae and VibrioBacterial Infections due to Yersinia and FrancisellaBacterial Infections due to Haemophilus, Bordetella, and BrucellaBacterial Infections due to PseudomonasBacterial Infections due to Rickettsia and ChlamydiaBacterial Infections due to MycoplasmaMixed Bacterial Infections of Oral Tissues: Fusospirochetal DiseasesViral InfectionsMiscellaneous Infections and Other Diseases of Tropical InterestNoninfectious Diseases in the TropicsNutritional Diseases in the TropicsAnemias in the TropicsHemoglobinopathies and Thalassemias in the TropicsBleeding Disorders of Tropical InterestEndocrine Disorders in the TropicsSECTION 4: Oral and Salivary Gland Neoplasms in Tropical PopulationsOdontogenic Neoplasms and HamartomasBenign Neoplasms and Tumor-like Lesions of the Oral Soft TissuesBenign Neoplasms of the Jaw-bonesOral Precancerous Lesions and Conditions of Tropical InterestOral Squamous Cell CarcinomaBurkitt’s LymphomaMalignant Neoplasms of the Oral Soft TissuesMalignant Neoplasms of the Jawbones Including those Metastatic to the RegionSalivary Gland NeoplasmsThe LeukemiasExperimental Aspects of Oral CarcinogenesisThe Immunology of Oral CancerCurrent Concepts in the Management of Oral CancerSECTION 5: Other Oral and Dental Diseases in the TropicsClefts of the Maxillofacial SkeletonCraniofacial Anomalies of Genetic OriginDevelopmental Disorders of the TeethDental CariesDisease Dynamics of the Dentin, Pulp, and Periapical TissuesInflammatory Periodontal DiseasesDevelopmental Anomalies of Oral Soft TissuesNonmicrobial Inflammatory Oral Mucosal LesionsConnective Tissue Hyperplasias of the MucosaNon-neoplastic Disorders of the Salivary GlandsOdontogenic Infections of the Jawbones and Related StructuresDevelopmental and Inflammatory Cysts of the JawsFibro-osseous and Other Lesions of the JawbonesDiseases and Disorders of the Temporomandibular JointMaxillofacial InjuriesForensic OdontologyAPPENDICESAppendix A. Advice to Travellers to the TropicsAppendix B. Normal Reference Values of Interest to the Tropical Dental Practitioner