Freny R Karjodkar MDS (Mumbai University)
Professor and Head Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology Nair Hospital Dental College
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Essentials of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
First Edition: 2014
9789351522294
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5Dedicated to
You discern how it is.
You choose a book, open to the dedication page, and find that, once again, the book is dedicated to someone else and not to you.
Here is the change.
It could be that we have not yet met, may have met or may never meet,
I trust despite that you will remember…
This one's for you.
7Preface
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
—Clay P Bedford
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
—Albert Einstein
There are already plenty of good books out there on dental radiology, then why did I write this book on Essentials of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology?
When the dental surgeon starts out looking at a film, he often has no idea what the diagnosis is. Experienced dental radiologists usually have no trouble generating an appropriate differential diagnosis. But what do you do if you are just starting out in dental radiology? The dental surgeon has the additional responsibility of interpreting his own radiographs.
Besides, in the recent decade, dental radiography has witnessed a radical change with advances in diagnostic imaging which has made dental diagnosis and treatment planning much more precise and accurate, but only if the interpreter is well versed with his basic radiology knowledge.
The dominant vision was to satisfy a need that is not currently addressed by any radiology textbook presently in the market. We wanted to create a single volume textbook that has all its information presented in a standardized way. We wished to avoid long descriptive sentence constructions that would make information retrieval inefficient. We tried to cover the basics of dental radiology, how and when to take dental radiographs and most important how to read and interpret, recognizing the fact that while there are hundreds of potential diagnosis lurking out there for the dental radiologist, in real life, one keeps bumping into the same old stuff over and over, and only rarely finds cases of the unusual disorders.
I wish to express my gratitude to all the persons who have directly or indirectly helped in the realization of this book, our dean Dr SJ Nagda, my colleagues Dr K Sansare and Dr S Sontakke, and all my postgraduate students with a special thanks to Dr Nimish Prakash and Dr Shahnaz Tambawala. My association with M/s Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, New Delhi, and the editorial and production staff in Mumbai and Delhi branches goes a long way and I truly appreciate their unstinted support and co-operation. The love, affection and patience of my family, my mother, aunt, husband Rashmiraj and children Mohnish and Raveena who have incited me to complete this book. I offer my intense thanks to the Almighty, for giving me the courage and confidence to realize my endeavor.
Finally my sincere submission to all my students and readers of this book in the words of Elie Wiesel, “There is a divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at birth. Others have been here before me and I walk in their footsteps…”
Freny R Karjodkar