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1Essentials of Oral Pathology
2Essentials of Oral Pathology
Second Edition
Swapan Kumar Purkait BDS (Cal) MDS (Cal) Reader, Career Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital Lucknow Formerly Sarjug Dental College and Mata R Davi Hospital Darbhanga and Dr SM Naqui Imam Dental College and Hospital Darbhanga
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First Edition:
1999
Second Edition:
2003
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My children Prithu and Pubali and my wife Maitreyee
5Foreword
Today our society is not in need of just a dental surgeon, but a medically competent dental surgeon. Oral Pathology is undoubtedly the most important integral subject of teaching in dental curriculum which bridges between the medical and dental sciences. But the available textbooks in this field of oral pathology are so voluminous that it becomes virtually impossible for any dental student to gather comprehensive knowledge out of those textbooks during their BDS course of studies. In view of this the textbook titlted Essentials of Oral Pathology written by Dr Swapan Kr Purkait seems to fill this lacuna admirably. I am sure this book will be of immense importance to the general dental practitioners too.
RR Paul
Head
Department of Oral Pathology
R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital
Kolkata
6Foreword
There is an ongoing search for an improved approach to deliver oral health care to ailing human across the globe. The gap between the reality and expectations in oral health care system is becoming wider; and this disparity, however, lies with the failure of translating fundamental biological science into own clinical practice.
Oral pathology is one of the basic science in dentistry, the thorough understanding of which can certainly bring about a qualitative changes in our clinical approaches towards amelioration of disease entity—providing both early intervention with better therapeutics and preventions. With this mission in mind, Dr Swapan Kumar Purkait, an eminant oral pathologist, has strived for new second edition of his book Essentials of Oral Pathology.
It is with great pleasure and profound satisfaction, I have gone through the entire edition and found to be very informative and useful for persuing undergraduate studies. This is a wonderful piece of work with simple language and lucid presentation; also, easy for students to assimilate and reproduce. About 150 pages have been added to this new edition to incorporate current contents and references; and, other chapters are thoroughly updated throughout. New chapters like Syndromes Related to Oral Diseases, Classification of Oral Diseases, and Diseases of TM Joint, will certainly enrich the readers.
The breakneck increase in information and indecent speed of expanding knowledge have dictated this second edition to come out. I am sure that this book will find its own place in dental profession and the readers shall have ready access to a comprehensive reference that enables rapid retrieval of integrated and relevant informations on the subject.
Tamal Kanti Pal
Head and Postgraduate Faculty (Retd)
Department of Periodontics
Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital
Govt of West Bengal, Kolkata
7Preface to the Second Edition
The first edition of Essentials of Oral Pathology was published in the year 1999, its three years since then and I feel quite happy that the book has been very well accepted by the students.
The overwhelming appreciation of the book has given me courage to go for the publication of the second edition and I am really grateful to the students and teachers for that. In this edition all the chapters have been thoroughly revised and not only that the discussions have been made in a more elaborate and illustrative manner in order to facilitate better understanding of the subject. Besides introduction of two new chapters namely the “ Syndromes related to Oral Diseases” and “ Important Classifications of Oral Diseases” another chapter “Diseases of the Temporomandibular Joint has been separately given. Moreover large number of “color plates” of histopathological features of several diseases have been added which will be definitely beneficial for the readers. Sincere care has been taken in every step to keep the discussions in a more precise and “to the point” manner, so that the students should like this book as mach as they have liked in the past.
I sincerely hope that constructive suggestions from the teachers and students will come regarding how to improve the book further.
Swapan Kumar Purkait
8Preface to the First Edition
Oral Pathology is an important branch of dentistry and although there are few good textbooks available in the subject, Essentials of Oral Pathology has been written with a view to present the subject to the students in a more simplified but comprehensive manner.
I hope the book will fulfil the need of the students by giving them relevant guidance in their day-to-day learning process as well as during their preparation for examination and above all, with the book in hand students will feel the subject easy to handle.
As no one is perfect in absolute sense, I also humbly accept my limitations regarding shortcomings in the book and therefore I sincerely welcome the valuable suggestions from my senior colleagues and students regarding what further should be done to improve this book.
Swapan Kumar Purkait
9Acknowledgements
First of all I would like to convey my sincere regards and thanks to my teachers Dr RR Paul, Dr TK Pal, Dr KK Mehrotra, Dr (Mrs) Kabita Chatterjee, Dr Sekhar Chakraborty, Dr Amit Roy and Dr Joygopal Roy for the guidance and direction during writing this second edition of the book.
A special thanks is extended to Dr Aloke Banerjee and Dr (Mrs) Mousumi Pal for providing me the large number of clinical photographs which have given a new dimension to the book.
I wish to acknowledge the exquisite computer generated graphic illustrations produced by Mr Suman Kumar Guha, Mr Sutripta Sur and Mr Sudhangshu Guha and also the help they provided during the preparation of the book.
Dr Sumanta Kumar Kolay deserves special thanks for his continuous support and encouragement extended as ever during the course of this work.
Special thanks and appreciation are extended to my friends and colleagues Dr Swapan Mukherjee, Dr Tushar Deb, Dr Arup Ghosh, Dr Santosh Kumar Pathak, Dr Prosenjit Banerjee, Dr Biswajit Mondal and Mrs Annie Mathen for their whole hearted support and encouragement.
I extend my warm regards to the editorial and production staff of M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., New Delhi, for their guidance, vision and support in making the book a really successful one. I thank all the students and management staff of Career Institute of Dental Sciences the Institution I am presently associated with.
Last but not the least I sincerely thank the students all over the country who have made this book successful and the second edition of this book would not have been possible without their acceptance and appreciation.