Allergic Reactions to Metals in the Mouth, 2nd edition

9.95
About the Course: 
This basic-level course reviews the importance of metals for human health, identifies common harmful metals and their role in disease, and discusses hypersensitivity reactions, with particular regard to metal allergies in medical and dental patients. Corrosion is also discussed relative to its role in the hypersensitivity reactions experienced by dental patients. 

Course Objectives
  1. Describe the essential role of metals in human health.
  2. Identify metals that are harmful to human health.
  3. Explain the relationship between hypersensitivity and metals.
  4. Describe the process of metallic corrosion.
  5. Describe the impact of metallic corrosion in the oral environment.
About the Author: 
J. Anthony von Fraunhofer, MSc, PhD, FRSC, is professor emeritus, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Maryland, where he also served as director of biomaterials research in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He has written more than 400 scientific papers and 16 books, and contributed chapters to 15 monographs on dental biomaterials and materials science. Dr. von Fraunhofer is the author of the well-regarded monographs Dental Materials at a Glance and Research Writing in Dentistry, published by Wiley-Blackwell. His special interests are the biomechanical properties of materials used in medicine and dentistry, and the degradation, wear, and corrosion of materials in the biosystem. 

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