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Pedodontics is an ever-developing field of dentistry and every dental student and practicing dentist is required to know its importance and understand the concepts of managing a child patient. Today pediatric dentistry has cast its mantle on every facets of the general dentistry. The book Pedodontics Practice and Management gives a complete coverage of all aspects of the pediatric dentistry from the basics to the recent developments in child management. It furnishes a clear coverage of basic anatomy, development, pathology, investigations, diagnosis, and management. Contents of this book are factual, reliable, and scientifically accurate and are based on recent literature. Inclusion of forensic pedodontics, pediatric genetics, and epidemiology will be much informative to the readers. It is well structured with separate sections dealing with each and every aspect in detail. The striking layout, illustrations and photographs reflect the efforts put by the author on making this book.

I am very happy to write a foreword for this book Pedodontics Practice and Management by Dr Badrinatheswar GV a student of mine with a zeal for academic excellence. I am very happy that his ambition of writing a textbook is fulfilled at young age.

I am glad to note that Dr Badrinatheswar GV has authored this book Pedodontics Practice and Management. I am sure that this book will be very useful for the dental students as it is informative and has more illustrations and flow charts. In addition it has new chapters like Pedodontics, Orthodontic – Interface, Pediatric Periodontics and Comprehensive Management of Cleft Lip and Palate. I congratulate him on this venture and wish him all success.

I am happy to know that Dr Badrinatheswar GV has compiled this book titled Pedodontics Practice and Management. I know him as a hardworking dental student who has topped in the subject of Pedodontics in Final Year from Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and Hospital, Chennai where I had worked as professor and Head of Pedodontics. I knew that he wanted to compile a book on Pedodontics for dental students and I am sure he has presented this keeping in mind the needs of the present-day undergraduate students.

The book Pedodontics Practice and Management provides with vast information regarding evolving trends and practices in the specialty of pediatric dentistry. I have compiled this textbook covering various topics from introduction, cariology, child abuse, normal and pathologic oro-dental and general health in children with emphasis on growth, behavior management and dental treatment procedures.

The dental institution from which I graduated had taught me both dentistry and ideals of life, all my teachers and professors have always been an unending great source of inspiration and information, which inspired and influenced me in achieving my dream of writing a textbook in the specialty of pediatric dentistry, a dream come true.