Main description:

Now in full color, this essential text features a visually oriented presentation of dental anatomy, physiology, and occlusion - the foundation for all of the dental sciences. Coverage includes discussions of clinical considerations, dentitions, pulp formation, and the sequence of eruptions. In addition to detailed content on dental macromorphology and evidence-based chronologies of the human dentitions, this edition also includes flash cards, an updated Companion CD-ROM, and Evolve resources that make this text a comprehensive resource for dental anatomy.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Dental Anatomy

2. Development and Eruption of the Teeth

3. The Primary (Deciduous) Teeth

4. Forensics, Comparative Anatomy, Geometries, and Form and Function

5. Orofacial Complex: Form and Function

6. The Permanent Maxillary Incisors

7. The Permanent Mandibular Incisors

8. The Permanent Canines: Maxillary and Mandibular

9. The Permanent Maxillary Premolars

10. The Permanent Mandibular Premolars

11. The Permanent Maxillary Molars

12. The Permanent Mandibular Molars

13. Pulp Chambers and Canals

14. Dento-Osseous Structures, Blood Vessels and Nerves

15. The Temporomandibular Joints, Teeth, and Muscles and their Functions

16. Occlusion

17. Flash Cards Appendix