McDonald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent 11th Edition

Book Preface

It is a great pleasure for me to introduce the next iteration of this long standing and successful textbook on the essence, foundation, and innovations in the science and practice of pediatric dentistry. After formally requesting and receiving fantastic feedback, compliments, and suggestions from a broad representation of notable academics and clinicians, as well as adding two new associate editors with specific expertise in their areas covered in the text, we analyzed, planned, and developed this edition to continue the nearly 60-year history of the book.

As I am writing this introduction, the world is mired in the Covid-19 pandemic and slowly learning how to adapt to the “new abnormal.” While impacting our care and practice, this remains an exciting time in dentistry and specifically pediatric dentistry, as new concepts, research, techniques and philosophies continue to positively impact outcomes for our child and young adult patients. Increased emphasis on patient, centered care, parent and child con-sent and assent, continued public health and private prac-tice improvements, advances in minimalist approaches to restorative care, new science on dental materials, pulp regeneration and revascularization, as well as a wide array of other advances, have enhanced our abilities to care for our patients and have been incorporated into these chapters.
Specifically, I am pleased to highlight a few additions and significant updates:

– Thirteen new authors have been added
– Complete update of the online video contribution with the expertise of a new video producer

– Rewrite of the community dentistry chapter with three critical components—dental workforce, dental delivery sites and organizations, and payment source
– Updates on preventive, interceptive, and early orth-odontic treatment, including information on pediatric sleep apnea
– New emphasis on the use of silver diamine fluoride
– New author update of the oral pathology chapter
– New section on vaping and oral implications
– Updated pain management section related to opioid use and misuse
– New section on pediatric dental bleaching
– Information on coronavirus and Covid-19 in children
– Updated on Periodontal Classification for children
– Expert Consult website with fully searchable access to the text, videos and multiple-choice questions
All of these enhancements take the assistance and dedication of multiple people. In particular, I’d like to thank all the great support staff at the Indiana University School of Dentistry, in particular Terry Wilson, Jr. and Caleb Clem-ents for their excellent production and editing work on all of the new videos, Amy Edmunds, Joyce Marlatt and Jas-mine Pence for their administrative support, Abby Morgan and Nicole Alderson in dental illustrations for their work, and Sean Stone for his guidance on the citation reference manager.
I’m proud of the dedication and work of our associate editors and authors for once again helping to maintain the tradition of excellence established by our mentors and predecessors, Drs. McDonald and Avery. We hope you enjoy this new edition, and as always, I look for-ward to your comments and constructive criticism as we continuously strive for improvement and the highest in quality. All the best to you, our colleagues, friends, and students.

Jeffrey A. Dean