Shafer's Textbook of Oral Pathology, 7th Edition

The periodic and timely revisions of Shafer's Textbook of Oral Pathology have brought out a treatise, well conceived and written with the aim of updating students all necessary nuances of the specialty. The scope of the present edition is an extension of this goal aimed at understanding the disease processes at more fundamental level, the impetus being those in the maxillofacial region. The book highlights the etiopathogenesis and clinical presentation of oral diseases and focuses on a variety of diseases commonly encountered in clinical practice.

Salient Features

Extensively revised and updated chapters

Temporomandibular Joint Diseases section completely rewritten

Physical and Chemical Injuries of the Oral Cavity chapter updated

Extensive revision of Dental Caries and Forensic Odontology chapters

Advanced information scattered throughout the book in highlighted boxes

New to this edition

General account on stem cells with particular reference to odontogenic stem cells

Histological grading of oral squamous cell carcinoma

Genetic basis of oral cancer

Adenocarcinoma NOS

Reclassification of odontogenic keratocyst into neoplasm

Lichenoid reaction

Bisphosphonate therapy

Hematopoietic stem cell

Laboratory findings of SLE
Influence of decalcification in tissue processing and additional account on hard tissue processing