Florin-Eugen Constantinescu
DDS, PhD Student Holistic Dental & Medical Institute of Bucharest- ROPOSTURO, Bucharest,
Romania e-mail: dr. florin. constantinescu @ gmail. com
Books Review
Mircea Ioan Popa
MD, PhD, Professor, Head Microbiology Department II
Faculty of Medicine“ Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania e-mail: mircea. ioan. popa @ gmail. com
Principles of Design and Fabrication in Prosthodontics
Author: Arnold Hohmann / Werner Hielscher Publisher: Quintessence Publishing Language: English ISBN: 978-0-86715-612-6 Edition: 1 / e Publish Year: 2016 Pages: 408, illustrated Price: 128.00 €
“ Principles of Design and Fabrication in Prosthodontics”, a book written by Arnold Hohmann and Werner Hielscher covers the working steps in the design and fabrication of restoration and dentures. It is addressed to advanced dental students and technicians. The textbook has nine chapters and describes the philosophy behind prosthodontic design, being a genuine guide. It presents the working principles and features of preprosthetics, coronal restoration, partial and removable partial dentures, telescopic and resilient anchoring and supporting elements, as well as the basic terms in the statics and dynamics of partial dentures. There is a complex chapter dealing with complete dentures which presents most techniques of design and fabrication, such as Gysi, Hiltebrandt, Schreinmakers, Gerber, Ludwig and APFNT System. The book approaches the topic of implantology describing the implants types, the component parts, the indications and prosthodontics in implantology. After reading this book, dental technicians have the ability to carry out successful prosthodontic work much better than those who have not read it yet.
Medical Microbiology and Immunology for Dentistry
Author: Nejat Düzgünes Publisher: Quintessence Publishing Language: English ISBN: 978-0-86715-647-8 Edition: 1 / e Publish Year: 2016 Pages: 306, illustrated Price: 118.00 €
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Nejat Düzgünes, PhD, currently Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry decided to write this book entitled Medical Microbiology and Immunology for Dentistry specifically addressed to dentists, because all medical microbiology textbooks are generally much too detailed for training purposes. This textbook has five parts and 41 chapters. The first part is dedicated to Immunology and presents the immune system, antibodies and complement, immune response and vaccines. The second part is about Bacteria, and talks about bacterial structure, metabolism, and genetics, bacterial pathogenesis, antibacterial chemotherapy, sterilization, disinfection, and antisepsis, microbial identification and molecular diagnostics and illustrates a lot of bacterial types. Oral microbiology is covered in two major chapters: Oral Microflora and Caries, and Periodontal and Endodontic Infections. A discussion about Fungi, fungal structure, replication, and pathogenesis, fungal diseases and antifungal chemotherapy is the content of part three. The last two parts present Viruses, Prions and Parasites along fourteen chapters. Most of the conditions treated by dentists are the result of bacterial infection and understanding the microbiology of these diseases is essential for their treatment. Through complete information on microbiology and immunology, this book is a quintessence of specialty literature and a therapeutic guide useful in each dentist’ s daily practice.
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