Essential Orthodontics: Diagnosis and Treatment is designed to help dental students, orthodontic residents, and general dentists understand the basic concepts and procedures essential to the diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment of patients who have relatively simple malocclusion problems. The authors explain the steps of diagnosing basic orthodontic problems and analyzing dental radiographs and include many of the forms and charts dentists use for examination, diagnosis, and appliance design. Readers will learn about the mechanics of how appliances move teeth, the different types of appliances, and the orthodontic materials on the market. The authors also explain and demonstrate through color photos how to take dental impressions, create plaster casts, how to create the various fixed and removable appliances, and how to write a laboratory prescription for each appliance. A needed text for the dental student, it is also an excellent resource for dentists wanting to expand their ...
"Emergency SalvageTM" is a term to describe heart surgeons' attempts to salvage patients who are actively dying from cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. Both nonfiction and fiction, this book describes author LSC M.D.'s struggles over a thirty-year period in caring for dying patients. It was written for readers who are only lightly educated about healthcare. Hopefully this book will give readers insight into the challenges of providing healthcare to actively dying patients in a world that is rapidly changing. The emotions of success, life, failure, and death are very vivid. About the Author L. Scott Cook received his M.D. from the University of Arkansas, his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, General Surgery training from the University of Oklahoma, and Thoracic Surgery from the University of Kansas. He has four children, Shane, Becca, Julius, and Daniel--and four dogs, Kit, Buddy, Junior, and Sadie. Jo Ella Cook is the s...