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computer graphics are quite basic, the use of clearly annotated pictures along with images of the skull and corresponding clinical photographs are excellent.
Overall, this will be a useful learning and revision tool for its target audience of dental students and medical students required to work in areas where a dentist is not available. It would also benet dental practitioners who wish to test their knowledge in this area but further texts should be consulted to supplement the readers understanding of exodontia. E. Sherwin
CRAIGS RESTORATIVE DENTAL MATERIALS, 13TH EDITION
R. L. Sakaguchi, J. M. Powers Elsevierprice 59.99; pp 416ISBN 9780323081085
Dental materials was a subject that lled me with dread as an undergraduate but its impossible to deny its daily relevance in our chosen careers. This text has made a subject that many of us struggle to grasp not only manageable but dare I sayenjoyable.
The thirteenth edition of this informative classic textbook proved to be a comprehensive resource written to aid understanding of the scientic basisof the dental materials we use on a daily basis as clinicians. This edition has been extensively rewritten since it was rst published in 1960 in order to include recent advances in dental bio-material science to remain relevant to current dental practice. As a result the book is of interest to clinicians, biomaterial scientists and engineers alike.
In addition to the concise and...