Reviews for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference

The average rating for Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-11-26 00:00:00 Ingegerd Silvis I brought this textbook on the same day that I have been decided to leave the oral surgery department in Cairo University after spending half of a year studying there to fulfill my Master degree. Oral surgery department looks like guerrilla wars & most of its members adapted such a vulgar language which I never wanted for myself. One of its most prominent professors who if you remembered manner ugliness, he would be its perfect incarnation, asked me about very sophisticated technique of mandibular reconstruction surgery. I told him: I am here to learn the answer from you then he expelled me out of the class. Immediately, I wrote a transfer request to the oral pathology department & it was very easy to be accepted there. All of these happened 15 days before my final exam so, I’ve bought it with all money I had in that moment. Therefore each page carries for me a memory full of curses & tears. And therefore I consider this review as a sort of commemoration to myself. Neville cares about details & maybe sometimes you will find him very meticulous. However, You could miss this concern in the field of microscopic histological pictures. These are few and somehow old. Such disadvantage is easy to compensate with other well known pathological atlas. I don’t find it suitable for undergraduate students. I am teaching them from simpler book & they still find it hard to recall. Even though, it is definitely the perfect one for postgraduate ones. It contains the following 19 chapters: - Developmental defects of the oral & maxillofacial region. - Abnormalities of teeth. - Pulpal & periapical diseases ( I don’t recommend the part of pulpal disease it is very short) - Periodontal diseases. - Bacterial infections. - Fungal & protozoal diseases. - Viral infection. - Physical & chemical injuries. - Allergies & immunologic diseases. - Epithelial pathology. ( You need to collect other classifications for reactive hyperplastic lesions & benign neoplasms because Neville classification is disturbing, the content is perfect though) - Salivary gland pathology ( try to find another good reference covering the histogenesis issue, cause Neville didn’t give it a clue) - Soft issue tumors. - Hematologic disorders. - Bone pathology. - Odontogenic cysts & tumors. - Dermatologic diseases. - Oral manifestations of systemic diseases - Facial pain & Neuro-muscular diseases. - Forensic dentistry (very interesting subject that no one talked about here in Egypt) - Differential diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial diseases (very helpful cause it arranges the heavy load information in a comparative form & bestows great part of terminology either) P.S., doing your postgraduate studies in Egypt universities is like making of your mind an another copy of the textbook but full of misprints. Despite that sad fact which I deeply believe in, the most important lesson I got from pathology was this concept: the more simple the thing, the more complex the way you need to observe it .The lucid observation is what I mean.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-27 00:00:00 Anetra Nabozna good