Banerji Subir, Mehta Shamir B., Ho Christopher C.K. Practical Procedures in Aesthetic Dentistry

John Wiley & Sons, 2017. — 367 p. — ISBN: 9781119032984.With changing trends associated with increased patient demands (often perpetuated by a growing wealth of ready-access, media-based and online digital information), it has become increasingly apparent that the attainment of a high-quality, predictable and desirable aesthetic treatment outcome has become an additional fundamental aim for the contemporary restorative practitioner. There is little doubt that the effective prevention, elimination and stabilisation of oral disease are essential prerequisites for successful oral rehabilitation.
Dental educators have responded to these needs by making available an array of resources, typically by means of traditional textual learning and hands-on courses. However, given the highly rapid pace of change and diverse developments in restorative dentistry, coupled with the current digital revolution (both in terms of information technology and social media), there is a need to deliver educational materials in a timeefficient, effective, user-friendly and economic manner – often at the ‘touch of a button’!
In this context, many online video presentations are widely available, for example on YouTube, which allow the dental practitioner to visualise procedures rather than simply imagining the stages between steps shown on photos supplemented by text. However, it is important that such resources meet quality assurance requirements and concomitantly boast authenticity.
I have come to realise the advantage of such assured dynamic-graphic content through my 20 years involved in educating undergraduate and postgraduate dental students as well as in my own clinical practice. In this unique publication I have been joined by an international team of highly experienced clinical educators who have, with their vast experience, put together material that aims to cover the principles and procedures for an array of clinical techniques, which we as experienced clinicians and educators strongly believe are integral to providing successful restorative dental treatment. In doing so, we have included a comprehensive range of aesthetic dental procedures commonly executed in everyday practice.
This learning resource comprises a combination of several hours of recorded video accompanied by an illustrated handbook summarising the key points, making available a source of information that we feel will help you to learn in a quick, meaningful and ‘bite-sized’ manner, and which we hope you will also find helpful and enjoyable.
While concise, this handbook is evidence based and includes references and suggestions for further reading. Additionally, it contains some relevant still photographs of crucial points in the procedures. The clinical images used throughout this resource have been taken from the contributing authors’ own dental practices and are from patients who have been treated by them.
Throughout this text, my co-authors and I have also tried to provide you with a number of useful, pragmatic clinical tips, which we feel may also help to tackle some of the minor (yet important) challenges that we as everyday practitioners encounter, but are seldom addressed.
The overall intention of this learning resource is to serve as a good accompaniment to traditional undergraduate and postgraduate learning materials, as well as to provide the general dental practitioner with a readily accessible form of relevant and appropriate information, combining the scientific and technical concepts in modern restorative dentistry.
This book is dedicated to those from whom we have learnt and to the many who continue on this journey.