Key Features :-

•  This book presents the full range of oral diseases encountered in the tropics.
•  Fills a long-felt need in dental and medical literature with 70 International experts contributing to 61 chapters.
•  Covers socialities such as oral pathology, oral medicine, oral biology, oral immunology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dermatology, plastic surgery, cancer research, general medicine, epidemiology, microbiology, tropical diseases and their geographical extent.
•  Emphasizes commonly encountered diseases in the tropics and those diseases that exhibit features which reflect the tropical.
•  Divided into five sections: Section 1 deals with general disease trends in the tropical regions; Section 2 discusses anthropological and cultural aspects of oral diseases in the tropics.
•  Section 3 deals with tropical diseases and their oral manifestations; Section 4 deals with oral and salivary gland neoplastic diseases in the tropics, and Section 5 deals with the tropical experience of the universally occurring oral diseases, dental caries and periodontal diseases.
•  Contains a chapter on Forensic Odontology to enable the readers to face challenges of victim identification including in mass disaster and victims of sexual and other assaults.
•  Useful resource for dental and medical undergraduate students, but also to postgraduate students, practitioners and teachers of dentistry and medicine in the tropics