This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book, plus access to the complete book content electronically. "Evolve eBooks" allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other "Evolve eBooks" titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic 'bookshelf', so that you can search across your entire library of "Dentistry eBooks". "Master Dentistry: Oral Biology" is designed as a revision guide for dental students and offers the 'curriculum essentials' in an easy-to-digest format. Each section is fully illustrated throughout and is supported by extensive self-assessment questions which allow the reader to assess their own knowledge of the topic and perfect their exam techniques. New to the "Master Dentistry" series, this volume addresses oral anatomy and its related histology, physiology and biochemistry and is perfect for both undergraduate students and post-graduates preparing for the MJDF.
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1. The anatomy of the oral cavity and the jaws 2. Temporomandibular (craniomandibular) joint 3. The human dentition-tooth morphology and occlusion 4. The oro-facial musculature, mastication and swallowing 5. The tongue, flavour and thermoreception, speech 6. The vasculature, lymphatics and innervation of the oro-dental tissues 7. Salivary glands, saliva and salivation 8. Investing organic layers on enamel surfaces 9. Development of the craniofacial complex 10. Early tooth development, root development (including cementogenesis) and tooth eruption 11. Mechanisms of mineralisation 12. The dental tissues I. Enamel (structure, composition and development) 13. Dental tissues II. The dentine/pulp complex(structure, composition, development and oral pain) 14. The dental tissues III. Cementum (structure and composition) 15. The periodontal ligament (including oral and periodontal mechanoreception and the tooth support mechanism) 16. Alveolar bone (structure and composition) 17. The oral mucosa and gingival crevicular fluid (structure and composition)
