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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Soxman, Jane A., editor.
Title: Handbook of clinical techniques in pediatric dentistry / edited by
Jane A. Soxman.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. |
Preceded by The handbook of clinical techniques in pediatric dentistry /
edited by Jane A. Soxman. 2015. | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021028073 (print) | LCCN 2021028074 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119661047 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119661078 (adobe pdf) | ISBN
9781119661108 (epub)
Subjects: MESH: Dental Care for Children – methods | Pediatric
Dentistry – methods | Tooth Diseases – therapy
Classification: LCC RK63 (print) | LCC RK63 (ebook) | NLM WU 480 | DDC
617.6/45 – dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021028073
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021028074
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Cover Images: © Jane A. Soxman
As a dentist for over 40 years, my career has been a blend of teaching and research pursuits and the private practice of pediatric dentistry. The integration of sound scientific and evidence‐based information with everyday clinical practice has immeasurable value to the clinician. The two must go hand in hand. The practicing dentist must be able to deliver care based on sound scientific principles, while maintaining the practicality of delivering that care in a busy private practice.
Dr. Soxman is ideally suited for this task. As a practicing pediatric dentist for nearly 38 years, she has numerous publications, presented countless continuing education courses throughout the United States, as well as contributing to pediatric dental and general practice residency programs for many years. This love of education and translating scientific evidence into clinical know‐how is what makes this second edition of The Handbook of Clinical Techniques in Pediatric Dentistry so valuable.
It often seems that not much changes in the world of pediatric dentistry, but the addition of several new chapters in this edition of the book tells a different story. Since the publication of the first edition there have been several significant trends in dentistry for children, and the addition of these chapters reflects those trends. Issues such as caries risk assessment, the noninvasive management of caries, an increased desire for more esthetic restorative options for children, and sleep disordered breathing in children are all clinical concerns that have increased in importance, hence their inclusion in this edition.
Dr. Soxman has chosen 19 others to contribute to this textbook, and like the blend of her own professional career, her collaborators are a blend of many well‐known pediatric dentists in private practice, as well as several accomplished academicians and researchers. I have had the pleasure of knowing, working with, and collaborating with several of these individuals. The result of Dr. Soxman's collaboration is a well‐illustrated, simplified, step‐by‐step approach to most common clinical challenges that a practitioner who treats children needs to know. While the book is scientifically solid, its strength, as in the first edition, is the clinical relevance and presentation of techniques that have been practiced with proficiency by those writing about them.
it is a pleasure to endorse a book of this caliber. It can serve not only as a textbook for those still learning, but as a reference manual for those who have been practicing for several years. Congratulations to Dr. Soxman and her collaborators on producing this updated, comprehensive textbook. I am confident that those clinicians who put into practice what they read in this text will be well served. But more importantly, so will the children who are treated by those clinicians be well served!
William F. Waggoner, DDS, MS, FAAPD,
FACD
Las Vegas, NV
The second edition of The Handbook of Clinical Techniques in Pediatric Dentistry offers dental students, postgraduate dental residents in both pediatrics and general practice, along with practicing dentists and hygienists, succinct evidence‐based guidance with supporting photographs, for treatment in the primary and young permanent dentitions. This second edition aims to provide the most recent advances and modifications, along with new methodologies for dental treatment.
Since publication of the first edition, treatment of dental caries at the lesion level has shifted from invasive to less invasive or noninvasive methods. This more conservative approach is a major development in clinical dentistry. The purpose of providing less invasive or noninvasive techniques for dental care is to arrest, reverse, or curtail caries progression without use of local anesthesia, the rubber dam, or the dental drill, and/or to preserve tooth structure. These modalities also may avoid sedation in order to provide quality care for a fearful, special healthcare needs, or uncooperative patient. Pediatric patients, who are too young to cooperate for definitive treatment, can be safely treated, while protecting the developing psyche, without the possible risks with sedation or general anesthesia. This second edition begins with a new chapter, “Non‐Invasive and Minimally Invasive Treatment of Dental Caries.”
Another new chapter, “Caries Risk Assessment,” is included too. The aim of this chapter is to provide a guideline for hygienists and dentists to identify caries risk, enabling the structure of an individualized preventive care plan, along with appropriate management of both noncavitated and cavitated carious lesions.
Other new chapters are “Management of Esthetic Concerns,” “Traumatic Injury to the Primary Incisors,” “Interceptive Orthodontic Treatment in the Mixed Dentition,” “Clinical Examination of the Infant,” “Clinical Examination of the Patient with Special Healthcare Needs,” “Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children,” and, finally, “Pediatric Oral Medicine.” Most of these chapters were written by contributors with particular expertise and interest in the subject matter.
Jane A. Soxman, DDS