An Opportunity Missed

✍ Scribed by D. Gordon MacDonald

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 291 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(75)70954-4

✦ Synopsis

This is a small multi-author volume which attempts to cover broadly the field of forensic dentistry. The authors indicate that it is intended to complement the classic work of Gustafson but not compete with it. Apart from such broad guidelines, however, the intention of the book is not clear. A major failing is that the intended readership does not appear to have been defined. Individual authors have tackled the areas of the subject at different levels and this has resulted in an unbalanced presentation. Comparison of the Foreword with the Preface reveals immediately one of the several conflicts in this volume. The Foreword states "the world literature on the subject has acquired very subsubstantial proportions" while the author's Preface states that "generally there has not been an abundance of literature in the subject of Forensic Odontology".