• Presents the full range of oral diseases encountered in the tropics

• Fills a long-felt need in dental and medical literature with 70 international experts contributing to 61 chapters

• Includes the following specialities-oral pathology, oral medicine, oral biology, oral immunology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, dermatology, plastic surgery, cancer research, general medicine, epidemiology, microbiology, tropical diseases and their geographical extent

• Emphasizes those diseases that are common in the tropic or those diseases that exhibit features which reflect the tropical

• Presents a systematic and thorough source of information divided into five sections: Section 1 deals with general disease trends in the tropical regions; Section 2 discusses anthropological and cultural aspects of oral diseases in the tropics; Section 3 deals with tropical diseases and their oral manifestations; Section 4 deals with oral and salivary gland neoplastic diseases in the tropics, and Section 5 deals with the tropical experience of the universally occurring oral diseases, dental caries and periodontal diseases.