The twelfth edition of Burket's Oral Medicine remains a comprehensive text of medical disease affecting the mouth that is ideal for use by students and residents. Written by a group of over forty internationally-respected experts in the field, it includes 23 chapters covering all major aspects of oral medicine. The twelfth edition contains new chapters, illustrations and figures. The text is accompanied by a CD, which will contain case reports for each chapter and an expanded bibliography.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to Oral Medicine and Oral Diagnosis: Evaluation of the Dental Patient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Michael Glick, DMD, FDS RCSEd; Martin S. Greenberg, DDS, FDS RCSEd; Mats Jontell, DDS, PhD, FDS RCSEd and Jonathan A. Ship, DMD, FDS RCSEd Overview of Clinical Research. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .17 Jane C. Atkinson, DDS; Dena Fischer, DDS, MSD, MS; Holli A. Hamilton, MD, MPH and Mary A. Cutting, MS, RAC Pharmacotherapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 by Mark Donaldson, BSP, PharmD; Jason H. Goodchild, DMD and Mark J. Wrobel, PharmD Ulcerative, Vesicular, and Bullous Lesions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Sook Bin Woo, DMD, MMSc, FDS RCSEd and Martin S. Greenberg, DDS, FDS RCSEd Red and White Lesions of the Oral Mucosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Mats Jontell, DDS, PhD, FDS RCSEd and Palle Holmstrup, DDS, PhD, DrOdont Pigmented Lesions of the Oral Mucosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123 Alfredo Aguirre, DDS, MS; Faizan Alawi, DDS and Jose Luis Tapia, DDS, MS Benign Lesions of the Oral Cavity and the Jaws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147 A. Ross Kerr, DDS, MSD; K. C. Chan, DMD, MS, FRCD(C) and Joan A. Phelan, DDS Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 Joel Epstein DMD, MSD, FRCD(C), FDS RCSEd and Sharon Elad, DMD, MSc Oral Complications of Nonsurgical Cancer Therapies: Diagnosis and Treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201 Douglas E. Peterson, DMD, PhD, FDS RCSEd and Siri Beier Jensen, DDS, PhD Salivary Gland Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219 Leah M. Bowers, DMD; Philip C. Fox, DDS, FDS RCSEd and Michael T. Brennan, DDS, MHS, FDS RCSEd Temporomandibular Disorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263 Richard Ohrbach, DDS, PhD; Bruce Blasberg, DMD, FRCD(C), FDS RCSEd and Martin S. Greenberg, DDS, FDS RCSEd Orofacial Pain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309 Rafael Benoliel, BDS, LDS, RCS Eng; Sowmya Ananthan, BDS, DMD, MSD; Julyana Gomes Zagury, DMD, MSD; Junad Khan, BDS, MPH, PhD and Eli Eliav, DMD, MSc, PhD Common Headache Disorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323 Scott S. De Rossi, DMD and J. Ned Pruitt II, MD Diseases of the Respiratory Tract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335 Patrick Vannelli, MD; Frank A. Scannapieco, DMD, PhD; Sandhya Desai, MD; Mark Lepore, MD; Robert Anolik,MD and Michael Glick, DMD, FDS RCSEd Diseases of the Cardiovascular System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363 Peter B. Lockhart, DDS and Laszlo Littmann, MD Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389 Michael A. Siegel, DDS, MS, FDS RCSEd; Lynn W. Solomon, DDS, MS and Lina M. Mejia, DDS Renal Disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .411 Scott S. De Rossi, DMD and Matthew J. Diamond, DO, MS, FACP Hematologic Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .435 Michaell A. Huber, DDS and Vidya Sankar, DMD, MHS, FDS RCSEd Bleeding and Clotting Disorders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463 Joel J. Napeñas, DDS, FDS RCSEd and Lauren L. Patton, DDS, FDS RCSEd Immunologic Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .489 Jane C. Atkinson, DDS; Niki Moutsopoulos, DDS, PhD; Stanley R. Pillemer, MD; Matin M. Imanguli, MD, DDS and Stephen Challacombe, BDS, PhD, FDS RCSEd, FRCPath Transplantation Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .521 Thomas P. Sollecito, DMD, FDS RCSEd; Andres Pinto, DMD, MPH; Ali Naji, MD, PhD and David L. Porter, MD Infectious Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Michaell A. Huber, DDS; Spencer W. Redding, DDS, MEd; Vidya Sankar, DMD, MHS, FDS RCSEd and Sook-Bin Woo, DMD, FDS RCSEd Disorders of the Endocrine System and Metabolism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .563 Mark Schifter, BDS, MDSc, (Oral Med), M SND, M Oral Med; RCSEd, FFD RCSI (Oral Med), FRACDS (Oral Med); Mark McLean, BMed, PhD, FRACP and Sunday O. Akintoye, BDS, DDS, MS Neuromuscular Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .611 Eric T. Stoopler, DMD, FDS RCSEd, FDS RCSEng and David A. Sirois, DMD, PhD Basic Principles of Human Genetics: A Primer for Oral Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .625 Harold C. Slavkin, DDS; Mahvash Navazesh, DMD and Pragna Patel, PhD Geriatric Oral Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .653 Katharine Ciarrocca, DMD, MSEd and Nidhi Gulati, MD Pediatric Oral Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669 Juan F. Yepes, DDS, MD, MPH, MS, DrPH, FDS RCSEd Panoramic Image Interpretation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .683 Ernest W. N. Lam, DMD, MSc, PhD, FRCD(C) Index 695 ix