Essential Of Oral Pathology

647 Pages·2011·14.179 MB·English

by  Swapan Kumar Purkait

Essentials of
Oral Pathology

Essentials of
Oral Pathology
THIRD EDITION
Swapan Kumar Purkait BDS (Cal) MDS (Cal)
Professor and Head
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
Purvanchal Institute of Dental Sciences
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Forewords
RR Paul
Jay Gopal Ray
Tamal Kanti Pal
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First Edition: 1999
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Third Edition: 2011
ISBN 978-93-5025-214-7
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To
My children Prithu and Pubali
and my wife Maitreyee

Foreword ...................................
Today our society needs not just a dental surgeon, but a medically competent dental surgeon.
Oral pathology is undoubtedly the most integral subject of teaching in dental curriculum
which bridges the gap 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 titled Essentials of Oral Pathology written
by Dr Swapan Kumar 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 MDS
Head
Department of Oral Pathology
Guru Nanak Institute of Dental Sciences
Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Foreword ...................................
It gives me immense pleasure to introduce the third edition of the book on oral pathology
titled Essentials of Oral Pathology by Dr Swapan Kumar Purkait to the budding graduates of
dentistry. Oral and maxillofacial pathology is a specialty of dentistry and a very fundamental
subject for all the students contemplating to practice clinical dentistry at large.
The purpose of the latest edition of this book remains the same, i.e. to provide the reader
with a comprehensive discussion of a wide variety of diseases that affects the maxillofacial
region. The previous editions have been well accepted and so far thousands of students
were benefitted by reading the same.
The immense effort put in by the author in bringing out this edition is highly
commendable. We all trust in the basic philosophy that education brings in knowledge
with consistent effort and knowledge when properly nurtured brings in wisdom. Similarly,
this book has also grown qualitatively and refined with every new edition.
This book has twenty-three chapters, illustrations and photographs arranged
systematically to fit in with the course and curriculum for undergraduate teaching; though
much emphasis is not given on in-depth detail of molecular and biochemical aspects of
modern diagnostic pathology, since this book has been written keeping in mind the need of
undergraduate students only.
Finally, I wish Dr Purkait all success in life and my deepest regards to him for sharing
his knowledge with the students. I conclude by saying “Man is not immortal but remains
immortal through his work”. I am sure all of us will be benefitted by this book.
Jay Gopal Ray MDS (Oral Pathology)
Postgraduate Teacher and Head
Department of Oral Pathology
Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital
Kolkata, West Bengal, India