Dental and Oral X-ray Diagnosis

IN Dental and Oral X-ray Diagnosis Professor Hutchinson has not simply compiled an atlas of dental radiographs, but has given us a concise and comprehensive textbook covering most, if not all, aspects of dental disease. Starting with chapters on dental development, normal dental anatomy, and congenital and developmental anomalies of structure, the author proceeds to deal with injuries to teeth, infection in its many stages of progression in dental and oral tissues, degenerative dental changes, diseases of maxillary sinuses, of the temporo-mandibular joints and of the salivary glands. Systemic diseases, in so far as they may involve jaws and teeth, are also fully discussed. These chapters cover endocrine and nutritional disturbances and the wide range of osteodystrophies, not infrequently diagnosed in the first instance during dental examination. The last six chapters, almost a third of the entire volume, are given to a full study of odontomes, cysts, and tumours; an important subject which, in the writer's view, has been treated most satisfactorily. Classifications of odontomes, cysts, and tumours are often difficult and confusing. The author's method of dealing with them as cysts (including odontogenic cysts), odontomes (including the epithelial or cystic odontomes), and finally the tumours, is, while not without minor difficulties, a satisfactory and straightforward classification. Throughout radiographs are of a high standard, and this feature makes the book valuable and attractive to both dental surgeon and radiologist. In addition to the numerous well-chosen radiographs, line-drawings and photographs are used, where necessary, with useful results. This book fills a great need not only of dental surgeons and radiologists, but also of dental and radiological students. The writer knows of no other published in Great Britain which gives such a useful correlation of pathological, clinical, and radiological changes in dental and oral disease. D. P.