1: Introduction
2: How does a caries lesion develop?
3: Detection, diagnosis and recording in the clinic
4: Control of caries lesion development and progression
5: When should a dentist restore a cavity?
6: Communicating with the patient and trying to influence
behaviour
7: Caries control for the patients with active lesions
8: Caries control in populations
Edwina Kidd is Emerita Professor of Cariology at King's College,
London. She qualified at the Royal Dental Hospital, London, in
1967. Although she was a teacher of Conservative Dentistry, her
research interests have been in cariology. She has published
extensively in research journals and lectured worldwide. She is
author of Essentials of Dental Caries, editions of Pickard's Manual
of Operative Dentistry (Oxford University Press) and is co-editor
of Dental
Caries (Wiley-Blackwell) with Ole Fejerskov and Bente Nyvad. Her
principal aim in teaching and writing has been to base the practice
of Conservative Dentistry on the science of Cariology.
Ole Fejerskov is Emeritus Professor at Institute of Biomedicine,
Aarhus University. Professor Fejerskov has completed honorary
Doctoral degrees at universities in Göteborg, Oslo, Oulo,
Montpellier, Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. He has been Professor
and chair of the Department of Dental Pathology, Operative
Dentistry and Endodontics at the Royal Dental College Aarhus for 20
years, and Dean for over 8 years.
Ole Fejerskov has written and edited 10 international books, and
over 400 papers on dental caries and fluorides, and was
editor-in-chief of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, an
international dental journal, for 10 years. He is also a visiting
professor in France, Australia, Japan and Singapore, and has
completed extensive epidemiological studies on oral health in East
Africa, and China.
The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the essentials of
dental caries. [It] is amply illustrated with over 100 colour
photographs of teeth together with many further diagrams and
various transmission and scanning electron microscope pictures of
teeth and the dental biofilm.
*Bruce Spittle, Fluoride*
This small yet fundamental text [...] is an excellent and concise
resource which should be a compulsory read for all dental students,
hygienists and therapists in the latter stages of their
training
*E.Ford, BDJ*
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