Essential Pathology for Dental Students

Overall lay-out of the revised edition of the book has been completely reorganised to make it more user-friendly. Current edition has 8 units in two sections (compared to 6 sections in two parts in previous edition). Every unit contains a certain number of chapters (total 55 chapters compared to 30 in previous edition), each chapter being focused on one topic. Since as per Course Regulations for BDS recommended by the Dental Council of India (DCI), 55 lecture hours have been prescribed; the revised edition, in conformity with that, therefore, has a total of 55 chapters in 8 units, each chapter devoted to a topic corresponding to one-hour of theory lecture.

Principal Key Features of the sixth edition are as follows:

• Revised and Updated Text
• Reorganised Content
• Newer and Amended Images/Tables
• ‘Key Points’ boxes
• Chapter Orientation
• Revised Practical Pathology (Third Edition) for Free

Thus, the revised edition of Essential Pathology along with the new Practical Pathology is a comprehensive and complete twin package that includes updated text of theory and practical exercises, covering the entire syllabus as recommended by the DCI.

• Contemporary concepts on various aspects of common diseases presented in simple language which is easy-to-understand and easy-to-reproduce.
• Text fully supported with labelled illustrations, schematic diagrams, and tables for ease of learning and making concepts; many new images and tables have been added for enhanced learning.
• Reorganised contents—8 units containing a total of 55 chapters, each chapter focusing on a topic that can be learnt in 1-hour lecture, i.e., 55 hours of theory lectures as per DCI.
• Key Points at the end of every topic include bulleted points summarising the topic to aid the reader for quick revision of the subject in a short time.
• Chapter Orientation box at the beginning of each chapter giving layout of the chapter for systematic and organised learning.
• Complimentary copy of revised third edition of Practical Pathology for Dental Students that contains 28 practical exercises on the pattern of 2-hour practical class for each exercise; supplemented with Key Questions for Viva-Voce at the end of each exercise.

The book has been primarily prepared for second-year students of BDS in Pathology although practicing clinicians and students from other branches of medicine such as pharmacy, physiotherapy, nursing, laboratory medicine, and alternate systems of medicine would also find it useful.