Hall's critical decisions in periodontology and dental implantology

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List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; DENTAL HISTORY; PLAQUE CONTROL HISTORY; RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION; INTERPRETING BONE LOSS ON RADIOGRAPHS AND BONE SOUNDING; PERIODONTAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL SIGNS OF GINGIVAL; HEALTH AND INFLAMMATORY PERIODONTAL DISEASES; GINGIVAL BLEEDING; PERIODONTAL PROBING; FURCATION INVOLVEMENT; MOBILITY; OCCLUSAL EVALUATION; LOCAL FACTORS IN PERIODONTAL DISEASE; VERTICAL BONE DEFECTS; DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR PERIODONTAL DISEASES AND CONDITIONS; GINGIVAL RECESSION PRIMARY OCCLUSAL TRAUMA SECONDARY OCCLUSAL TRAUMA; ABSCESSES OF THE PERIODONTIUM; LOCALIZED AND GENERALIZED AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS; GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT; CIRCUMSCRIBED GINGIVAL ENLARGEMENT; CRACKED TOOTH SYNDROME; HOPELESS TEETH; PRIMARY HERPETIC GINGIVOSTOMATITIS; DESQUAMATIVE GINGIVITIS/ MUCOCUTANEOUS DISEASES; ALTERED PASSIVE ERUPTION; THICK VERSUS THIN GINGIVAL BIOTYPE; INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ENDODONTIC AND PERIODONTAL DISEASE; DIFFERENTIATING ENDODONTIC AND PERIODONTAL PAIN; LABORATORY TESTING; SUPPLEMENTAL LABORATORY TESTS; MICROBIAL ANALYSIS; INTERLEUKIN-1 GENETIC TESTING TREATMENT PLANNING AND CONSIDERATIONS DEVELOPING A PROGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ABSCESSES; PERIODONTAL RISK FACTORS AND ASSESSMENT; PERIODONTAL RISK MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE OF TREATMENT; HOST MODULATION THERAPY; ADEQUACY OF ATTACHED GINGIVA; PROSTHETIC ABUTMENT ASSESSMENT; PROSTHETIC TREATMENT PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS; EXTRANEOUS FACTORS: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; EXTRANEOUS FACTORS: MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS; EXTRANEOUS FACTORS: RESTORATIVE CONSIDERATIONS; MANAGEMENT OF GINGIVAL RECESSION; MANAGEMENT OF THE ANXIOUS PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE GERIATRIC PATIENT MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT ON ANTITHROMBOTIC MEDICATION MANAGEMENT OF THE FEMALE PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE PREGNANT PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE DIABETIC PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT ON BONE ANTIRESORPTIVE DRUGS; MANAGEMENT OF THE SMOKER; MANAGEMENT OF THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MANAGEMENT OF THE CANCER PATIENT; MANAGEMENT OF THE SPECIAL NEEDS PATIENT; REFERRAL TO A PERIODONTIST; INFORMED CONSENT AND REFUSAL; INITIAL THERAPY AND ADJUNCTIVE PATIENT MANAGEMENT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA CONSIDERATIONS FOR PERIODONTAL TREATMENT PROPHYLAXIS, DEBRIDEMENT, AND ROOT PLANING ULTRASONIC DEBRIDEMENT VERSUS HAND SCALING AND ROOT PLANING; MAXILLARY MOLARS WITH ROOT PROXIMITY AND PERIODONTAL PROBLEMS; DEBRIDEMENT, MANAGEMENT, AND MAINTENANCE OF FURCATION INVOLVEMENT; POWERED VERSUS MANUAL TOOTHBRUSH; ADJUNCTIVE PLAQUE CONTROL DEVICES; LOCALLY DELIVERED; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS (GENERIC); LOCALLY DELIVERED; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS (PROPRIETARY); PERIODONTAL SYSTEMIC ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CANINE PROTECTED; ARTICULATION VERSUS GROUP FUNCTION; SELECTIVE TOOTH GRINDING VERSUS SPLINTING