A Global Compendium of Oral Health

Download or read book A Global Compendium of Oral Health written by Oluwatoyin Morenike Folayan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a summary of 30 countriesâ (TM) epidemiological profiles on tooth eruption and hard dental tissue anomalies. It opens with a chapter that introduces readers to the entire gamut of anomalies associated with tooth eruption, and dental tissue development and its associated anomalies. This is followed by a chapter that discusses dental development and its association with life history, brain development, and sexual maturity, as well as population differences in tooth development. There is also a contribution that extensively addresses teething and associated myths and misconception, while another considers non-syndromic causes of dental anomalies. The book ends with a chapter that maps what we currently know and what still remains to be studied.