The new edition shows dental care professionals when and how to treat medically compromised patients, including those with mycocardial infarction, diabetes and atherosclerosis. Each concise, fact-filled chapter looks at one of more than 30 diseases, offering general medical information, advice on evaluation and treatment, discussions on oral findings, case studies and summaries. Readers will see how to: - conduct an accurate patient assessment, so they can identify the disorder immediately and take appropriate management measures - evaluate the illness to determine whether the patient is medically capable of and receptive to necessary dental treatment - anticipate a patient's reaction to a particular drug - perform procedures safely and effectively on virtually any special patient.