Transplant Medicine: A Guide For Dentists

Transplant medicine so far is a less travelled road by the dentists. Over the past decades dentists have come across a challenging job to treat organ or bone marrow transplant recipients. This book gives an insight into the patho-physiological changes that are brought about by transplant procedure, rejection or life-long immunosuppressive drugs. A separate chapter has been dedicated to graft rejection and its implications to a dentist. A great emphasis is given on categorizing the oral lesions into infections, drug-induced, pre-malignant or malignant groups. Each group of lesions have been described separately along with their dental management. A protocol for pre- and post-operative dental and oral care has been highlighted, in order to prevent the complications. For any dental professional it is an hour of the need to be aware about transplant medicine. This handbook will help graduate and post graduate students and dental practitioners in achieving their goal.