Tag: Cambridge
A Practical Guide to the Self-Management of Musculoskeletal Pain in Dental Professionals
Author(s): Jemes Tang Description: Dental professionals spend their working lives in stressful environments and in awkward postures, with resultant musculoskeletal problems. While there are numerous books on musculoskeletal pain, there is nothing specific for dental professionals on the holistic approach…
Procedures in Implantology, Prosthodontics and Surgery
Author(s): André Antonio Pelegrine Marcelo Lucchesi Teixeira Marcelo Sperandio Peter Karyen Moy Description: This book describes the most commonly used techniques in Oral Rehabilitation. It has been designed in a step-by-step manner, using study models to standardize how procedures should…
Human Adult Odontometrics: The Study of Variation in Adult Tooth Size
Author(s): Julius A. Kieser, Description: An appreciation of the genetic and environmental determinants of tooth size is fundamental to an understanding of the metric variation of teeth in humans. Thus, besides imparting a sound knowledge of the theories of dental…
Dental Functional Morphology (How Teeth Work)
Author(s): PETER W. LUCAS Description: This book offers an innovative alternative to the assumption that teeth merely crush, cut, shear or grind food, and demonstrates how teeth adapt to diet. Peter Lucas reveals how tooth form from the earliest mammals…
Introduction to Biomaterials: Basic Theory with Engineering Applications
Authors: C. Mauli AgrawalJoo L. OngMark R. ApplefordGopinath Mani Description: This succinct textbook gives students the perfect introduction to the world of biomaterials, linking the fundamental properties of metals, polymers, ceramics and natural biomaterials to the unique advantages and limitations…
Human Tooth Crown and Root Morphology
The Arizona State UniversityDental Anthropology System Authors: G. Richard Scott, University of Nevada, Reno , Joel D. Irish, Liverpool John Moores University Description: This guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions substantially builds on a seminal 1991…
Technique and Application in Dental Anthropology
Authors: Joel D. Irish Greg C. Nelson Description: Bringing together a variety of accomplished dental researchers, this book covers a range of topics germane to the study of human and other primate teeth. The chapters encompass work on individuals to…
Tooth Development in Human Evolution and Bioarchaeology
Author: Simon Hillson Description: Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it? Addressing these and other key…
Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation
(Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) Authors: G. Richard Scott Joel D. Irish Description: Researchers have long had an interest in dental morphology as a genetic proxy to reconstruct population history. Much interest was fostered by the use of…
Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth
Editors: Mark F. Teaford Moya Meredith Smith Mark W. J. Ferguson Description: Over the past 20 years there has been an explosion of information generated by scientific research. One of the beneficiaries of this has been the study of morphology,…
