This volume provides a clinically-oriented guide for advanced dental and medical specialists who deal with pathologies in the oral cavity, midface, and neck. With a focus on the mechanisms of 425-plus diseases and how they determine clinical and radiographic presentations and affect the differential diagnoses, the 20 chapters discuss specific treatment recommendations that oral and maxillofacial surgeons Marx and Stern (both of the U. of Miami School of Medicine) have researched and consider the most beneficial (including both surgical and medication protocols), as well as prognosis. Topics include biopsy principles and techniques; inflammatory, reactive, infectious, and immune-based diseases; management of irradiated patients and osteoradionecrosis; malignant and nonmalignant neoplasms and tumors; hyperplasias, hamartomas, and neoplasms; pigmented lesions; cysts; and developmental disturbances. The final chapter presents outdated and updated terms. Contains 2,100 b&w and color photographs. Oversize: 11x11.75 Read Less