
Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine
- 10th Edition - January 4, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Edward W. Odell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 5 4 9 - 4
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 5 7 3 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 5 7 4 - 6
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Request a sales quoteThe tenth edition of this core textbook will prepare the reader to diagnose and treat many different diseases and disorders that they may not have encountered in person before.
The text integrates oral medicine, pathology, and surgical and drug treatment, allowing the reader to apply diagnostic algorithms and develop the key understanding they will need to apply theory to clinical practice.
Originally published in 1962, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Tenth Edition continues to offer its trademark easy-to-read style, a world-class collection of photographs showing oral conditions, and the latest evidence and guidelines to support safe clinical practice.
The text integrates oral medicine, pathology, and surgical and drug treatment, allowing the reader to apply diagnostic algorithms and develop the key understanding they will need to apply theory to clinical practice.
Originally published in 1962, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Tenth Edition continues to offer its trademark easy-to-read style, a world-class collection of photographs showing oral conditions, and the latest evidence and guidelines to support safe clinical practice.
- Thoroughly updated to include new guidelines, oral diseases and treatments including the new WHO Classification of Tumours 2022 terminology
- Friendly, accessible writing style provides ready access to essential information
- Flow charts to guide the reader thorough the process of differential diagnosis for a range of conditions
- Evidenced-based throughout to help facilitate safe clinical practice
- Self-assessment to support understanding and problem solving
- Summary charts to aid learning and revision
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Preface
- References
- Chapter 1. Principles of investigation, diagnosis and treatment
- Taking a history
- Clinical examination
- Medical examination
- Clinical differential diagnosis
- Investigations
- Section 1. Hard tissue pathology
- Chapter 2. Disorders of tooth development
- Abnormalities in the number of teeth
- Defective enamel formation
- Defective dentine formation
- Defects of enamel and dentine
- Other systemic diseases affecting teeth
- Extrinsic agents affecting teeth
- Odontomes and minor tooth anomalies
- Disorders of eruption
- Chapter 3. Disorders of development
- Clefts of lip or palate
- Other facial clefts
- Stafne’s idiopathic bone cavity
- Hereditary prognathism
- Ankyloglossia
- Cowden’s syndrome
- Other craniofacial malformations
- Chapter 4. Dental caries
- Aetiology
- Bacterial plaque
- Microbiology
- Sucrose
- Susceptibility of teeth to caries
- Saliva and dental caries
- Pathology of enamel caries
- Pathology of dentine caries
- Clinical aspects of caries pathology
- Chapter 5. Pulpitis and apical periodontitis
- Pulpitis
- Pulp calcifications
- Periapical periodontitis, abscess and granuloma
- Acute apical periodontitis
- Acute apical (dentoalveolar) abscess
- Chronic apical periodontitis and periapical granuloma
- Chapter 6. Tooth wear, resorption, hypercementosis and osseointegration
- Tooth wear
- Bruxism
- Resorption of teeth
- Hypercementosis
- Pathology of osseointegration
- Chapter 7. Periodontal diseases
- The normal periodontal tissues
- Classification of periodontal diseases
- Gingivitis
- Periodontitis
- Severe periodontitis
- Periodontitis as a manifestation of systemic conditions
- Periodontal (lateral) abscess
- Acute pericoronitis
- Gingival recession
- Necrotising periodontal diseases
- Periodontitis in HIV infection
- Gingival enlargement
- Localised juvenile spongiotic gingivitis
- Foreign body gingivitis
- Plasminogen deficiency gingivitis
- Other inflammatory gingival swelling
- Chapter 8. Osteomyelitis, osteitis and osteonecrosis of the jaws
- Normal healing of an extraction socket
- Alveolar osteitis
- Osteomyelitis of the jaws
- Acute osteomyelitis
- Chronic osteomyelitis
- Diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis
- Chronic non-bacterial osteomyelitis
- Chronic low-grade focal osteomyelitis and sclerosing osteitis
- Osteoradionecrosis
- Proliferative periostitis
- Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaws (MRONJ)
- Traumatic sequestrum
- Chapter 9. Major infections of the mouth and face
- Periapical (dentoalveolar) abscess
- Collateral oedema
- ‘Fascial’ or tissue space infections
- Facial cellulitis
- Facial abscess
- Antibiotic abscess
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Cavernous sinus thrombosis
- Noma (cancrum oris, necrotising stomatitis)
- Actinomycosis
- The systemic mycoses
- Systemic infections by oral bacteria
- Chapter 10. Cysts in and around the jaw
- Classification of cysts
- Common features of jaw cysts
- Treatment of jaw cysts
- Treatment of soft tissue cysts
- Odontogenic cysts
- Inflammatory collateral cysts
- Dentigerous cysts
- Eruption cyst
- Odontogenic keratocyst
- Orthokeratinised odontogenic cyst
- Lateral periodontal and botryoid odontogenic cysts
- Glandular odontogenic cyst
- Calcifying odontogenic cyst
- Carcinoma arising in odontogenic cysts
- Gingival cyst of the newborn
- Gingival cyst of adults
- Non-odontogenic cysts
- Surgical ciliated cyst
- Nasolabial cyst
- Sublingual dermoid cyst
- Thyroglossal duct cyst
- Branchial cyst
- Foregut cyst
- Other cysts in other chapters
- Chapter 11. Odontogenic tumours and related jaw lesions
- Pathogenesis of odontogenic tumours
- Benign epithelial tumours
- Squamous odontogenic tumour
- Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour
- Adenomatoid odontogenic tumour
- Benign epithelial and mesenchymal tumours
- Ameloblastic fibrodentinoma and fibro-odontome
- Primordial odontogenic tumour
- Odontomes (odontomas)
- Calcifying odontogenic cyst
- Dentinogenic ghost cell tumour
- Benign mesenchymal tumours
- Odontogenic fibroma
- Odontogenic myxoma
- Cementoblastoma
- Cemento-ossifying fibroma
- Malignant odontogenic tumours
- Chapter 12. Non-odontogenic tumours of the jaws and facial skeleton
- BENIGN MAXILLOFACIAL BONE AND CARTILAGE TUMOURS
- Dense bone islands
- Osteomas
- GIANT CELL LESIONS OF BONE
- Central giant cell granuloma
- Peripheral giant cell granuloma
- Cherubism
- BONE CYSTS
- FIBRO-OSSEOUS NEOPLASMS AND DYSPLASIAS
- Cemento-osseous dysplasias
- Ossifying fibromas
- SOFT TISSUE TUMOURS IN THE JAWS
- Melanotic neuroectodermal tumour of infancy
- Ewing’s sarcoma
- HAEMATOLOGICAL TUMOURS IN THE JAWS
- Myeloma
- Solitary plasmacytoma
- Lymphoma
- Primary malignant neoplasms of bone
- Chondrosarcoma
- Intraosseous rhabdomyosarcoma
- Metastases to the jaws
- Chapter 13. Inherited, metabolic and other non-neoplastic bone diseases
- Inherited diseases of bone
- Metabolic bone disease
- Other bone diseases
- Chapter 14. Disorders of the temporomandibular joints and trismus
- Temporary limitation of movement
- Persistent limitation of movement: extracapsular causes
- Persistent limitation of movement: intracapsular causes
- Limitation of movement: muscle causes
- Pain referred to the joint
- Dislocation
- Section 2. Soft tissue disease
- Chapter 15. Diseases of the oral mucosa: mucosal infections
- Ulcers
- Herpesvirus diseases
- Primary herpetic stomatitis
- Herpes labialis
- Herpes zoster of the trigeminal nerve
- Cytomegalovirus ulcers
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Herpangina
- Measles
- Chicken pox
- Mpox
- Tuberculosis
- Syphilis
- Candidosis
- Chapter 16. Diseases of the oral mucosa: non-infective stomatitis
- Ulcers
- Traumatic ulcers
- Recurrent aphthous stomatitis
- Behçet’s disease
- HIV-associated oral ulcers
- Nicorandil-induced ulcers
- Miscellaneous mucosal ulcers
- Lichen planus and similar conditions
- ‘Desquamative gingivitis’
- Lichen planus
- Lichenoid lesion
- Lichenoid reactions
- Graft-versus-host disease
- Lupus erythematosus
- Chronic ulcerative stomatitis
- IMMUNOBULLOUS DISEASES
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Mucous membrane pemphigoid
- Toothpaste and mouthwash-induced epithelial peeling
- Erythema multiforme
- Stevens Johnson syndrome
- Other mucosal allergic responses
- Oral signs in reactive arthritis
- Kawasaki’s disease (Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
- Chapter 17. Tongue disorders
- Normal structures
- Hamartomas and developmental anomalies
- Erythema migrans
- Lingual papillitis
- Hairy tongue and black hairy tongue
- Anaemic glossitis
- Glossodynia and the sore, physically normal tongue
- Macroglossia
- Amyloidosis
- Other diseases affecting the tongue
- Chapter 18. Benign chronic white mucosal lesions
- Fordyce spots
- Leukoedema
- Frictional keratosis
- Cheek and tongue biting
- Stomatitis nicotina
- Oral hairy leukoplakia
- White sponge naevus
- Other keratin diseases
- Candidosis
- Oral keratosis of renal failure
- Skin grafts
- Psoriasis
- Other white lesions
- Chapter 19. Potentially malignant disorders
- Erythroplakia
- Speckled leukoplakia
- Leukoplakia
- Proliferative verrucous leukoplakia
- Stomatitis nicotina
- Smokeless tobacco-induced keratoses
- Chronic hyperplastic candidosis
- Oral submucous fibrosis
- Lichen planus
- Oral lichenoid lesion
- Lupus erythematosus
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- HPV-associated dysplasia
- Syphilitic leukoplakia
- Management of potentially malignant disorders
- Smoking cessation
- Chapter 20. Oral cancer
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- ‘Early’ and ‘late’ oral carcinoma
- Oral cancer distribution
- Pathology
- Management
- Role of the dentist
- Oral cancer screening
- Verrucous carcinoma
- Carcinoma cuniculatum
- Diagnostic catches
- Chapter 21. Other mucosal and lip carcinomas
- Lip carcinoma
- Human papillomavirus–associated oropharyngeal carcinomas
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Pseudocarcinomas and diagnostic catches
- Chapter 22. Non-neoplastic diseases of salivary glands
- Duct obstruction
- Mucoceles and salivary cysts
- Acute sialadenitis
- Xerostomia
- Sjögren’s syndrome
- HIV-associated salivary gland disease
- IgG4 related disease
- Eosinophilic (allergic) sialadenitis
- Necrotising sialometaplasia
- Nodular oncocytic hyperplasia
- Sarcoidosis
- Sialadenosis
- Other salivary gland disorders
- Hypersalivation and drooling
- Chapter 23. Salivary gland tumours
- Salivary gland neoplasms
- Benign tumours
- Malignant salivary gland tumours
- Metastatic neoplasms
- Non-epithelial tumours
- Intraosseous salivary gland tumours
- Tumour-like salivary gland swellings
- Chapter 24. Benign mucosal swellings
- Fibroepithelial polyp, epulis and denture-induced granuloma
- Papillary hyperplasia of the palate
- Pyogenic granuloma and pregnancy epulis
- Giant-cell epulis
- Papillomas
- Verruciform xanthoma
- Calibre-persistent artery
- Chapter 25. Soft tissue tumours
- Benign tumours
- Malignant connective tissue tumours
- Chapter 26. Oral pigmented lesions
- Diffuse mucosal pigmentation
- Localised melanin pigmentation
- Other localised pigmented lesions
- Melanoma
- Chapter 27. Cosmetic procedures
- Tooth whitening
- Tissue fillers
- Botulinum toxin
- Thread facelifts
- Susuk needles
- Body art
- Section 3. Systemic disease in dentistry
- Chapter 28. Anaemias, leukaemias and lymphomas
- Anaemia
- Sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait
- The thalassaemias
- Leukaemia
- Lymphomas
- Leukopenia and agranulocytosis
- Chapter 29. Haemorrhagic disorders
- Preoperative investigation
- Management of prolonged dental bleeding
- Blood vessel abnormalities
- Purpura and platelet disorders
- INHERITED Clotting disorders
- Acquired clotting defects
- Combined bleeding disorders
- Plasminogen deficiency
- Chapter 30. Immunodeficiency
- Selective IgA deficiency
- C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency
- Leukopenia and agranulocytosis
- Immunosuppressive treatment
- Other organ transplants
- HIV infection and AIDS
- Oral lesions in HIV infection
- Miscellaneous oral lesions
- Oral adverse effects of ART
- Risks of transmission of HIV infection to healthcare workers
- Risks of transmission of HIV to patients
- Chapter 31. Allergy, autoimmune and autoinflammatory disease
- Allergic or hypersensitivity reactions
- Mucosal allergic responses
- Angio-oedema
- Autoimmune diseases
- Autoinflammatory diseases
- Chapter 32. Cervical lymphadenopathy
- Investigation
- Tuberculous cervical lymphadenopathy
- Atypical mycobacterial infection
- Sarcoidosis
- Syphilis
- Cat-scratch disease
- Lyme disease
- Infectious mononucleosis
- HIV infection
- Toxoplasmosis
- Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (Kawasaki’s disease)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy
- Castleman’s disease
- Drug-associated lymphadenopathy
- Virchow’s node
- Delphian node
- Chapter 33. Cardiovascular disease
- General aspects of management
- Infective endocarditis
- Prevention of endocarditis
- Implanted cardiac devices
- Chapter 34. Respiratory tract disease
- Maxillary antrum disease
- Acute sinusitis
- Chronic sinusitis
- Surgical damage to the maxillary antrum
- Pneumatisation of the sinus
- Aspiration of a tooth, root or instrument
- Tuberculosis
- Chronic obstructive airways disease
- Asthma
- Midfacial destructive lesions
- Carcinoma of the antrum
- Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis)
- Sleep apnoea syndrome
- Viral pneumonia
- Bronchogenic carcinoma
- Chapter 35. Gastrointestinal and liver disease
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux and gastric regurgitation
- Coeliac disease
- Crohn’s disease
- Orofacial granulomatosis
- Malabsorption syndromes
- Ulcerative colitis
- Intestinal polyposis syndromes
- Antibiotic-associated colitis
- Liver disease
- Viral hepatitis
- Chapter 36. Nutritional deficiencies
- Vitamin deficiencies
- Chapter 37. Endocrine disorders and pregnancy
- Pituitary gigantism and acromegaly
- Thyroid disease
- Autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes
- Diseases of the adrenal medulla
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes
- Diabetes mellitus
- Pregnancy
- Chapter 38. Renal disease
- Chronic renal failure and dialysis
- Renal transplantation
- Chapter 39. Orofacial pain, headache and neurological disorders
- Dental and periodontal pain
- Pain in edentulous patients
- Painful mucosal lesions
- Pain in the jaws
- Postsurgical pain and nerve damage
- Pain induced by mastication
- Pain from salivary glands
- Neuralgia and neuropathy
- Paraesthesia and anaesthesia of the lower lip
- Facial palsy
- Bell’s palsy
- Headache
- Disturbances of taste and smell
- Epilepsy
- Chapter 40. Physical and learning disability
- Discrimination legislation
- Learning disability
- Behavioural disorders
- Diseases causing physical impairments
- Chapter 41. Mental health conditions
- Pain without medical cause
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
- Psychoses
- Chapter 42. Dentistry and older people
- Dementia
- Other systemic diseases
- Oral disease in older people
- Chapter 43. Complications of systemic drug treatment
- Local analgesics with vasoconstrictors
- Drug dependence and addiction
- Chapter 44. Medical emergencies
- Sudden loss of consciousness
- Chest pain
- Respiratory difficulty
- Seizures
- Other emergencies
- Chapter 45. Adverse events in dentistry
- Section 4. Learning guide and self-assessment questions
- Chapter 46. Learning guide
- Chapter 47. Self-assessment questions
- Index
- Edition: 10
- Published: January 4, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 592
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323935494
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323935739
- eBook ISBN: 9780323935746
EO
Edward W. Odell
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Oral Pathology and Medicine, King’s College London; Honorary Consultant in Oral Pathology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK