Book review

This is a book with a difference, written by two consultants in restorative dentistry and prosthodontics. It is brimful of relevant diagrams, clinical illustrations and simulated clinical illustrations. It starts by stating that removable prosthodontics has being described as a black art – the Marmite of dentistry: practitioners either love it or hate it! It then proceeds to enthusiastically cover every aspect of removable prosthodontics that this reviewer can think of.

The first page covers an important topic in any sort of dentistry, but probably in my view, is central to success in removable prosthodontics, namely communication, I quote: ‘The patient will need to have time to adapt slowly to their new prosthesis’, this being particularly important for the complete denture patient. This reviewer started by calling each section a chapter until the penny dropped that the style of the book was that each ‘chapter’ contained only two pages – diagrams and illustrations on the left page and text on the right, for a total of 47 sections, as opposed to chapters! In that regard, each ‘section’ is really a guide in itself, with this reviewer being amazed at the clarity with which each subject was discussed in one page and a series of (excellent) diagrams.