Dentistry has evolved into a modern, highly clinical discipline, and the parent regulatory body has accordingly revised the microbiology curriculum to reflect this reality. Microbiology can no longer be taught as a body of isolated facts to be memorised for an examination; it must be taught as a living clinical science that the dental surgeon will apply every day at the chairside – in •diagnosis, •rational use of antimicrobials, •infection control, and •protection of the patient and the operator alike.
All conventional sections general Microbiology immunology systemic Bacteriology virology mycology parasitology and applied Oral Microbiology have been covered in full. To these have been added the Competency-Based Dental Education (CBDE) topics as prescribed in the revised curriculum, presented competency by competency, so that both the teacher and the student know precisely what is to be taught, what is to be learnt and what is to be attained.
Salient Features of the book
• Competency-based (CBDE) chapters mapped to the revised curriculum, competency-wise.
• Clinically oriented question-and-answer chapters framed in the pattern now being asked in the Second Professional BDS examination.
• Complete practical section covering the entire prescribed practical schedule with procedure, principle and interpretation.
• Multiple choice questions, including those of NEET-MDS standard, for self-assessment and revision.
• Illustrations and colour plates chosen to aid recall and recognition, not merely to decorate the page.
• Glossary of microbiology and dental terms with definitions and a detailed subject index for rapid reference.
This title is conceived to be the first single volume in which the conventional syllabus, the competency based curriculum, clinical question–answer material, the complete practical schedule and examination-oriented MCQs have all been brought together between the two covers. The student does not need to assemble knowledge from four or five scattered sources.
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