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Faculty Member's Book Published by Arizona and California Health Services

Physician's Guide to Dental EmergenciesCarla Lidner, SD'90, MS, assistant professor of dental educational services, and director of Oral Oncology Services in the School of Dentistry, is co-author of a book which will be used by California and Arizona emergency room physicians. The book is entitled, “Physician's Guide to Dental Emergencies.”

Dr. Lidner, who is a dental consultant to the Arizona Department of Health Services, co-wrote the book with Don Altman, DDS, MPH, chief of the Office of Oral Health for the Arizona DHS.

California's Dental Health Foundation has secured publishing rights to the book, and has begun distributing it to emergency rooms across the state. Dr. Lidner will present the book at conventions and in grand rounds for physicians.

The chapters cover such topics as loose, intruded, avulsed, and fractured teeth; toothaches; soft and hard tissue infections; laceration of soft tissues; post-dental visit complications; temporomandibular disorders; and local anesthesia. There are also charts for identification of teeth and dental prescriptions.

Each chapter includes a tray setup with instruments and disposables needed, conditions to rule out, the clinical presentation, treatment, suggested analgesics or antibiotics, and recommended referral times.

Many of the photos and graphics for the book were supplied by members of the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry faculty, including Robert Frank, DDS, Liviu Eftimie, DDS, PG'98, Robert Kiger, SD'70, MS'85, and Lane Thomsen, SD'65, MS'74. Content was reviewed by Garth Brown, DDS, Leif K. Bakland, SD'63, Lloyd Baum, DMD, Harvey Zalsman, Jr., MD, SD'83, Robert Clement, DDS, Susan Roche, SD'93, MS, and Philip Boyne, DMD, MS'61. “During the editorial process, all of these faculty contributed helpful suggestions and comments which I greatly appreciated,” says Dr. Lidner.

For information on obtaining the book, please write to the Dental Health Foundation, 4340 Redwood Hwy., #319, San Rafael, CA 94903.

C. Lidner
Carla Lidner, SD'90, MS


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