Book Description:
This text focuses on behavioral science as it relates to the dental profession, and deals with psychology, sociology and communication. The book teaches to identify and address the behavioral issues encountered in dentistry, ranging from strategies to reduce anxiety in nervous and phobic patients, other issues affecting the individual patient, and proceeds to broader public health concerns (e.g. motivating the population as a whole to adopt healthier diet and hygiene practices).

Book Description:
This text deals with dramatic disorders that can be present in the face and head. This book reviews the ways patients with emotional problems present to maxillofacial surgeons and other dental practitioners. It provides practical advice to help these clinicians recognize the orofacial manifestations of psychiatric disorders and explains the different approaches to treatment. Chronic orofacial symptoms, including pain, disturbances of jaw movement, altered sensation, uncontrolled salivation, and ulceration,  are often revealed to be the result of emotional problems. The book covers clinical situations ranging from how to deal with anxious patients, the patient with stress-related cranial, oral, and facial pain, to the patient who wishes to change his or her appearance through orthognathic or orthodontic means. The book is intended for dental practitioners, academicians, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and any who may have interest in the management of chronic pain.

Click here for more information about this book.