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.

• Table of 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

Author Information

By Stanley J. Nelson, DDS, MS, Professor and Co-Chair Clinical Sciences Education, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, School of Dental Medicine, Las Vegas, NV