Second edition of Dental Caries launches
In March 2008, dental publishing house, Wiley, launched the second edition of the eminent reference Dental Caries: the Disease and its Clinical Management. Dental Learning Hub spoke with editors Professor Ole Fejerskov and Professor Edwina Kidd about what the new edition offers and how it presents the latest in caries research.
Dental Learning Hub: Explain how the second edition of Dental Caries progresses from the first?
Fejerskov and Kidd: The new edition presents the disease and its pathophysiology in a context where the evidence behind diagnosis, prevention, non-operative and traditional operative treatment is brought into focus. The new edition is expanded significantly in an attempt to make available scientific knowledge applicable in daily clinical praxis and in public health. The consequences of what is now known about dental caries is presented from the perspective of a low income country as well as a middle and high income countries.
The book is thus for the first time a text which should be useful for private practitioners who wish to conduct evidence-based dentistry, as well as for public health dentists. For all those who are responsible for planning curricula and dental health care it is a mandatory text as it brings our knowledge into perspective by documenting what may be achieved when clinical decision making is based on scientific evidence. The new edition has colour throughout and the colour illustrations are integrated with the text.”
Dental Learning Hub: What was some of the most valuable feedback you received from the first edition?
Fejerskov and Kidd: We were delighted to see the first edition being used all over the world. In some countries the book was seen as a teachers’ resource, but in several countries it is an obvious part of the curriculum and students were buying it. In this context it is remarkable that the publisher has been able to expand the new edition by 30% while keeping the same price! The feedback was uniformly good, although we were thoughtful that we had not addressed the problems of poorer countries in the management of caries. The first edition has been translated into Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Chinese.
Dental Learning Hub: What are your main goals for this book?
Fejerskov and Kidd: Our goal is that students and teachers should realise that they can do magic for the patients – and hence society - if they apply scientifically based principles to control the caries process in the communities they serve.
Dental Learning Hub: What was your reason for including an editor’s guide to reading the book at the beginning?
Fejerskov and Kidd: We consider this is the key to understanding the book. It is a synopsis of each chapter, giving its essential message in a simplified way, but it is also very personal to us, as we have at times give our opinions here. In some ways, this is a ‘stand alone’ chapter that gives the flavour of what is to follow as the ‘evidence’ is presented.
The final section of the book is titled ‘Dentistry in the 21st Century’ – what role does it serve in the book as a whole?
Fejerskov and Kidd: The chapter is of great importance if we are to serve the majority of the world’s populations as cost-effectively as possible.
Dental Learning Hub: Does the second edition contain significantly more or different illustrations and radiographs that the first?
Fejerskov and Kidd: There are many more colour illustrations in the second edition, but all the good illustrative material from the first edition is also reproduced. The operative chapters in particular have many new illustrations and the quality of the technical dentistry shown is very high. It is not easy to obtain illustrations of this quality. These illustrations show the techniques in atlas form. The book also now contains illustrations of deciduous teeth.
Dental Learning Hub: What did you enjoy most about editing the second edition?
Fejerskov and Kidd: Seeing the book expand to include dental public health and truly become a text which can be applied in daily work in the clinic. Working with 44 international colleagues was a privilege.
Dental Learning Hub: Do you have a particular article or chapter in this edition that you’re particularly impressed by?
Fejerskov and Kidd: Vibeke Baelum’s new chapters and in particular her chapter 25 on clinical decision making are challenging and remarkable. An understanding of these principles is critical to caries control in the individual and in populations.
Dental Learning Hub: If a third edition was to be released in 5 years’ time, what new content would you predict or hope it would contain?
Fejerskov and Kidd: We hope the next edition will come with a CD of all illustrations to make it easy for teachers to use the illustrative material in their lectures to students. In many countries it is just not possible for the students to afford expensive textbooks. A new generation of scientists are underway. We are convinced that the biological basis for classic ‘drilling and filling’ will be seriously questioned and evidence for new ways of controlling the disease will be available.
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In March 2008, dental publishing house, Wiley, launched the second edition of the eminent reference book Dental Caries: the Disease and its Clinical Management. Dental Learning Hub spoke with editors Professor Ole Fejerskov and Professor Edwina Kidd about what the new edition offers and how it presents the latest in caries research.
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