Richard R. Welbury - Paediatric Dentistry

Paediatric Dentistry

Edited by

Richard Welbury

Professor of Paediatric Dentistry
University of Glasgow;
Visiting Professor
University of Zagreb

Monty S. Duggal

Professor of Child Dental Health
Leeds Dental Institute

Marie Thrse Hosey

Professor of Paediatric Dentistry
Kings College London

Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP United Kingdom

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T.J. Gillgrass and R. Welbury

A.S. Blinkhorn

M.L. Hunter and H.D. Rodd

M.T. Hosey, L. Loureno-Matharu, and G.J. Roberts

J.G. Meechan

C. Deery and K.J. Toumba

S.A. Fayle

M.S. Duggal and P.F. Day

J.A. Smallridge

N.M. Kilpatrick and L.A.L. Burbridge

P.A. Heasman and P.J. Waterhouse

R. Welbury, J.M. Whitworth, and M.S. Duggal

P.J.M. Crawford and M.J. Aldred

T.J. Gillgrass

J.G. Meechan

M.T. Hosey and R. Welbury

J.H. Nunn

J.C. Harris and R. Welbury

The child and adolescent deserves the best of care in all the different disciplines of dentistry. I was delighted to be given the opportunity of trying to draw together all the different aspects of paediatric dentistry and am most grateful to my colleagues for agreeing to contribute the various chapters which make up the book. We have tried to cover as much ground as possible within the obvious publishing restrictions and the finished product will inevitably reflect the editors perceptions of where current needs and deficiencies exist. The sudden increase in both erosive tooth surface loss and cosmetic awareness in our younger patients made their inclusion in ) are as deserving of detailed inclusion in a paediatric as much as in any general text.

The book was written with undergraduate dental students in mind, but we hope it will also be useful to those engaged in postgraduate studies and to general dental practitioners. Exhaustive references are deliberately not given but suggested further reading lists are included to help expedite Further enquiry and learning.