Laboratory tests are an individual aid to the practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeon. In conjugation with a other history and physical examination, the myriad of laboratory tests available can aid in the diagnosis of various disease and allow the precise preoperative and postoperative management of patient with systemic disease....

Granulomatous diseases have plagued humans for millennia, with evidence of tuberculosis infection in Egyptian mummies and descriptions of the disease in Hippocrate’s writings....

Tongue is highly specialized muscular organ of oral cavity. It shows a wide degree of clinical changes in systemic and local disease and has been used as an indicator of health....

This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive variation in behavioural ecology, morphology, life history, and genes....