Enhance your skills in patient assessment, oral diagnosis, and treatment planning! A full-color, all-in-one reference, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry, 4th Edition helps you create person-centered dental treatment plans for adolescent and adult patients. Using evidence-based research, this text shows how risk assessment, prognosis, and expected treatment outcomes factor into the planning process. Detailed coverage guides you through each phase of the treatment plan. New to this edition are chapters covering digital tools used in treatment planning and revised content in all chapters. The book renews a core section that describes how to plan and provide optimal oral health care for unique patient populations. Written by noted dentistry educators Stephen Stefanac and Samuel Nesbit, this must-have resource includes a fully searchable eBook version free with each print purchase.

Section 1: Patient Examination and Diagnosis

1. Patient Evaluation and Assessment

2. Common Diagnoses in Dentistry

Section 2: The Treatment Planning Process

3. Evidence Based Treatment Planning: Assessment of Risk, Prognosis, and Expected Treatment Outcomes

4. Developing the Treatment Plan

5. Interprofessional Treatment Planning

6. Ethical and Legal Considerations when Treatment Planning

Section 3: Phases of the Treatment Plan

7. The Systemic Phase of Treatment

8. The Acute Phase of Treatment

9. The Disease Control Phase of Treatment

10. The Definitive Phase of Treatment

11. The Maintenance Phase of Care

Section 4: Planning Treatment for Unique Patient Populations

12. The Patient with Special Needs

13. The Patient Who Is Substance Dependent

14. The Anxious or Fearful Dental Patient

15. The Patient with Psychological Disorders

16. The Adolescent Patient

17. The Geriatric Patient

18. The Motivationally Compromised or Financially Limited Patient