The manual covers the history of therapeutic dentistry, standards and requirements for the organization of dental care, principles of infection control, recommendations about keeping medical records, basic and special methods of examining the dental patient, as well as anatomy of oral organs and tissues, theories about the origin and pathogenesis of caries, microbiology of the oral cavity and techniques of removing dental plaque, treatment of carious and non-carious lesions, as well as the etiology, pathogenesis and methods of treating disorders of the pulp and periapical tissues. These issues are considered from the point of view of current knowledge and in accordance with the principles of