Excerpt from Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Teeth It has been my object to systematize the nomenclature most in vogue with the profession, whenever practical, rather than to introduce new terms. However, the reader will find a. Few new terms, and possibly a few old ones, that are used differently from the former custom. The -terms up and down, to indicate direction or parts of teeth, are abandoned, because of their ambiguity. In a few instances, new forms of old words have been used, especially to avoid the terms inner, outer, backward, forward, etc., which are so often mis leading. The words mesial, distal, labial, buccal, lingual, etc., are used as adverbs of direction by adding ly, or the same thing is accomplished by the use of the preposition to. It is as easy to say of a cavity that it extends far beyond beyond, to, or nearly to, to the gingival line, as to say it ex tends up or'down, etc., and the meaning will not be mistaken; or to say that a cavity extends distally, or to the distal, or lingually, or to the lingual, instead of backward, or inward, either of which has different meanings in different situa tions. The best rule is to use no extraneous object in the designation of the parts of, or direction on, the surface of a tooth; but to confine the phraseology to the specific and well defined terms applied to its several parts. The back part of a molar would not mean the same relative part as the back part of an incisor. In many such ways the author has endeavored to systematize, and make more definite, the phraseology applied to the teeth without. Going to extremes knowing well that forms of language once in use can be im proved more easily than they can be displaced by new terms, though more exact. The absence of a Bibliography may be noted. The plan and object of this work has not seemed to call for many references to authorities. This does not imply, however, that authors who have preceded me, as Fox, Carabelli, Tomes, Wedl, Judd, Wortman, and many others, to whom we are greatly indebted, have been either overlooked or ignored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Teeth By my experience as a practitioner, as a teacher, and in my intercourse with fellow-practitioners, I have become convinced of a serious defect in the teaching of the details of the anatomy of the teeth, and in the systematization of the terms used in their description. This defect has been a constant drawback at the chair, in the laboratory, and most of all, in the college. The object of the present volume is to remedy, in a measure, this defect. To this end I have had constantly in view the needs of the dental student and practitioner. We have heretofore had excellent general descriptions in human and comparative dental anatomy; but these have dealt principally with the general forms of the dentitions of the mammalia and other orders of animate beings, rather than with specific descriptions of the forms of the various surfaces and surface markings, making up the sum of the forms of the individual teeth of man. Valuable as these works have been, they have left the acquirement of a knowledge of the details of the specific forms of the human teeth mostly to individual observation. By this means, many have attained to an excellent perception of the various forms of the human teeth; but it is not reasonable to suppose the profession generally will do this without some fixed guide. What the dental student wants most in the college, and in the office, is a systematized nomenclature of the several parts of the teeth in detail; and such a description as will call his attention successively to every part of each tooth, as Gray, in his Anatomy, has called attention to every part of each bone, however apparently unimportant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A core anatomy textbook for dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting students, Woelfel's Dental Anatomy provides in-depth coverage of tooth structure, tooth function, morphology, anatomy, and terminology. Revised for greater readability, this Seventh Edition includes more material on the clinical application of tooth morphology and features 690 illustrations, twice as many as the previous edition. Content includes an updated operative dentistry chapter, a new section on sketching teeth in occlusion, and a chart on geometric tooth shapes covered on the National Board Examination for Dental Anatomy and Occlusion. This edition also includes more end-of-chapter review questions and new question sections.

A valuable guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions for ancestry estimation and biodistance analysis.