Fig. 5.1 Patient subjected to a professional in-office tooth bleaching therapy, which can be esthetically regarded as a success. However, the patient reported postbleaching sensitivity in the anterior teeth (Images…
Fig. 10.1 Schematic illustration of the origin of the whitish opaque appearance of initial caries and developmental defects. (a) Sound enamel is relatively translucent for visible light. Light beams (arrows)…
This type of cleavage is favored by light and heat and forms free radicals. Heterolytic cleavage, which is a deprotonation reaction leaving an electron pair: This deprotonation occurs at increased…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 Jorge Perdigão (ed.)Tooth Whitening10.1007/978-3-319-38849-6_3 3. Overall Safety of Peroxides Yiming Li1, 2 (1) Center for Dental Research, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, 11175 Campus Street, Loma Linda, CA 92350,…
15 Atlas of Salivary Gland Surgery SNEHAL G. PATEL Surgical resection is the most commonly employed treatment modality for tumors of the salivary glands. Safe and effective surgery of the…
9 Benign Tumors, Cysts, and Tumor-like Conditions of the Salivary Glands ROBERT L. WITT AND SUSAN J. MAYGARDEN Three percent of head and neck tumors and 0.5% of all tumors…
10 Malignant Neoplasms of the Salivary Glands F. CHRISTOPHER HOLSINGER, ADEL K. EL-NAGGAR, LEONARDO TORRES, DAVID I. ROSENTHAL AND RANDAL S. WEBER Malignant salivary gland tumors are uncommon and account…
8 Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease RICHARD J. SCHMIDT, STEVEN P. COOK AND JAMES S. REILLY The spectrum of diseases of salivary gland origin in children is both different and perhaps…
16 Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation ARA A. CHALIAN AND SARAH H. KAGAN Patients with facial paralysis suffer significant functional, aesthetic, and psychosocial sequelae. Even single branch weakness or paralysis may leave…
7 Classic Approaches to Sialoendoscopy for Treatment of Sialolithiasis ODED NAHLIELI Obstructive sialadenitis, with or without sialolithiasis, represents the main inflammatory disorder of the major salivary glands. The diagnosis and…
5 Sialadenitis KELLY M. MALLOY, DAVID ROSEN AND MARC R. ROSEN Sialadenitis refers to the various inflammatory conditions affecting the salivary glands. It has been recognized as a disease entity…
2 Imaging of the Salivary Glands LAURIE A. LOEVNER AND MADHAVI L. BATTINENI The imaging algorithm for assessing the salivary glands depends on the clinical scenario with which the patient…
1 Salivary Gland Anatomy MICHAEL B. RHO AND DANIEL G. DESCHLER The salivary gland system of the upper aerodigestive tract plays a critical role in the functions of digestion, respiration,…
4 Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninïammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands MARY F. CUNNANE AND GREGORY J. ARTZ Like exocrine glands generally, the salivary glands are composed of…
13 Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms ADAM RABEN Several chapters on the management of major and minor salivary gland cancers have been written over the last decade,…
6 Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis JOHN D. HARRISON The background to our present understanding of sialolithiasis starts in 1896, when Küttner1 published his observations on two patients who had…
12 Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms CHARLES J. SCHNEIDER The majority of lymphomas involving head and neck sites are secondary “nodal” lymphomas, which most…
11 Metastasis to Major Salivary Glands PAUL SABINI AND ROBERT L. WITT Skin Cancer and the Salivary Glands Despite its prevalence, nonmelanoma skin cancer often manages to surprise both patients…
17 Medicolegal Perspectives in Salivary Gland Diseases SHERRY C. MCREYNOLDS AND AXEL KOCH This chapter will address and compare how medical malpractice is proved in the United States and Germany,…
3 Embryology, Physiology, and Biochemistry of the Salivary Glands KENNETH R. NISSIM, ROBERT L. WITT AND JONATHAN A. SHIP Embryology Salivary glands are present in amphibians upward. Parotid glands are…
