Nasim Fazel - Oral Signs of Systemic Disease

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Oral Signs of Systemic Disease provides valuable insight into solving diagnostic challenges. Careful oral examination can provide such clues to the learned observer. However, the medical education and training of most physicians and other healthcare providers does not emphasize the oral cavity. This results in a lack of familiarity with normal and abnormal features and the diagnostic clues they can provide. By contrast, dental education provides the necessary skills to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings. However, the dental clinician may not be skilled in placing abnormal features in the context of a mucocutaneous or systemic condition. Thus, this contribution serves to educate both physicians and dentists.

Dr. Nasim Fazel is an eminently well-suited editor for Oral Signs of Systemic Disease. She is a DDS graduate of Northwestern University Dental School and an MD graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. This education was followed by residency training in dermatology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Fazel has been a faculty member at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Dermatology for more than a decade and a half, where she has developed an oral dermatology practice and has served as Dermatology Residency Program Director. As a dual-trained dentist and dermatologist, as well as a consummate educator, Dr. Fazel brings great knowledge and experience to bear on the topic.

The contributors to this textbook are scholars from broad areas of expertise including dentistry, pediatric dermatology, oral dermatology, oral medicine, oral pathology, microbiology, and medical genetics. Each brings a depth of knowledge and understanding of the relevance of their topics to the problem-solving algorithm for the patient with troublesome oral lesions. Dermatologists know that the skin is often a mirror of systemic diseases. Those skilled in the diagnosis of challenging oral diseases know that the mouth is, similarly, a mirror of systemic diseases.

This book will be a valuable addition to medical libraries as a reference volume and to the personal library of the clinician whose patient has a vexing oral disease.

The conception of Oral Signs of Systemic Disease came about with the intention to provide a practical reference for the day-to-day practice of clinicians in the fields of dermatology, dentistry, oral medicine, and otolaryngology. In addition, the comprehensive nature of this textbook can serve as an educational tool for students, residents, and fellows in training with the goal of learning the fundamentals of oral mucosal disease.

Oral Signs of Systemic Disease provides descriptive clinical and oral manifestations and differential diagnoses, including principles of therapy of major entities, while maintaining a uniform chapter format. I am greatly appreciative of the authors for their contributions, without whom this textbook would not have been possible. I would also like to thank Portia Wong, Diane Lamsback, and Rebekah Collins at Springer Publishing for their time and support.