Avoiding and Treating Dental Complications

Complications from dental procedures are inevitable and encountered by all dental professionals. Avoiding and Treating Dental Complications: Best Practices in Dentistry is designed to address proper management of these situations in everyday practice.

• Covers a range of dental issues and complications found in daily practice
• Written by experts in each specialty
• Features tables and charts for quick information
• Includes clinical photographs and radiographs

List of contributors, vi

Acknowledgments, viii

1 Best practices: Restorative complications, 1

2 Periodontal complications, 29

3 Endodontic complications, 50

4 Prosthodontics complications, 73

5 Oral surgery complications, 103

6 Complications of local anesthesia, sedation, and general anesthesia, 120

7 Implant complications, 144

8 Pediatric dentistry complications and challenges, 176

9 Orthodontic complications and the periodontal aspects related to clinical orthodontics, 202

Index, 237

Deborah Termeie, DDS, is Clinical Instructor in Periodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry and maintains an active private practice in Los Angeles. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Termeie has written several peer-reviewed journal articles and is the author of the best-selling textbook Periodontal Review.

Complications from dental procedures are inevitable and encountered by all dental professionals. Avoiding and Treating Dental Complications: Best Practices in Dentistry is designed to address proper management of these situations in everyday practice.

With contributions written by experts in their respective fields, Avoiding and Treating Dental Complications is an evidence-based guide to the most successful treatment methods and management of complications across a broad range of dental problems. Chapters are devoted to restorative dentistry, periodontics, endodontics, prosthodontics, oral surgery, anesthesia, implants, pediatric dentistry, and orthodontics.

• Covers a range of dental issues and complications found in daily practice
• Written by experts in each specialty
• Features tables and charts for quick information
• Includes clinical photographs and radiographs