The mouth is a mirror of health or disease, a sentinel or early warning system. Many systemic diseases have oral manifestations.Thus oral cavity is an important diagnostic area not just because it contains derivatives of all of the primary germinal layers, and includes tissues not demonstrable anywhere else in the body, but also because of its role played in diagnosing a number of systemic diseases just because of their oral manifestations.This book presents a detailed exposition of oral and general manifestations of systemic diseases affecting humans.

Neuralgia is defined as"neuropathic pain felt along the peripheral distribution of a nerve trunk."Neuropathic pain refers to pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system.It is due to an abnormality in components of the nervous system itself rather than to noxious stimulation of otherwise normal neural structures as with superficial and deep somatic pain disorders. Neuropathic pain conditions are frequently associated with qualities with which the patient is not familiar.One of the responsibilities of the dentist is the diagnosis and treatment of pain...