List of Books to read for Dental Pre PG Exams in India

AIPPG dental section

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General texts and preclinical dental books
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1. Dental practitioner handbook series (around 20 books on various fields of den
tistry. Killey and Kay oral surgery texts are a part of the series)
2. Clinical dentistry by Rowe (good comprehensive reference for all clinical den
tistry topics, but dont expect it to be exhaustive)
3. Oxford textbook of clinical dentistry
4. *Oral histology embryology by ten cate. (Standard Textbook)
5. Orbans oral histology (Nice old text but not much of changes over time)
6. *Ash and wheeler's tooth morphology Anatomy and occlusion
7. *Disorders of TMJ and occlusion: Okeson (very good one and standard. I would
add it as bible even if its not a text for normal syllabus because the Questions
in PG entrance from TMJ are increasing and this is a standard latest text for t
hat!)
8. Fergusson: oral biology
9. Oral microbiology and immunology (I dont remember the author...a green covered
text)
10. *Phillips' Science of Dental Materials (Standard Textbook)
11. Kenneth J. Anusavice
12. *Craig and power's restorative dental materials (Standard Textbook)
13. Skinners dental materials old ed.1969 I think...refer it. And u will know why
I add such an old text!
14. Clinical manipulation of dental materials by Smith et al.
Oral medicine & radiology
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1. Burketts oral medicine
2. *Goaz and white dental radiology
3. Dental Radiography: Principles and Techniques (Reference Book)
4. By Joen I. Haring, Laura Jansen (Reference Book)
5. Oral Radiology Principles and Interpretation (Reference Book)
6. By S C White, M J Pharoah (Reference Book)
Oral pathology
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1. *Shafers oral pathology. (Standard TextBook for oral path.)
2. Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 2nd Edition
3. By Brad Neville, Douglas D. Damm, Carl M. Allen and Jerry Bouquot
4. Regezi oral pathology
5. Oral Pathology (3rd Edition) by J V Soames & J C Southam (Reference Book)
6. Diseases of the Oral Mucosa (2nd Edition) by M Strassburg, Manfred & G Knolle
(Reference Book)
7. *Handbook of Oral Disease: Diagnosis and Management by Crispian Scully (Refer
ence Book)
8. Spouges text published in 1973 is and is considered a good reference (Referenc
e Book)
Oral surgery
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1. *Oral surgery vol: 1&2 by LASKIN
2. *Local anaesthesia by MALAMED
3. *All books on oral surgery by KILLEY and KAY.
4. Andersons dental trauma
5. Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial surgery (4th Edition) (Reference Book)
6. Larry J. Peterson (Editor), Edward Ellis (Editor) & James R Hupp (Reference B
ook)
7. An Outline of Oral surgery Parts I & II by G R Seward, M Harris, D A McGowan,
H C Killey & L W Kay (Reference Book)
8. Handbook of Third Molar surgery by George Dimitroulis, MDSc, FDSRCS, FFDRCS,
FRACDS (Reference Book)
9. Rowe and wiliams oral and maxillofacial injuries. (Reference Book)
10. Series of books by fonseca (Reference Book)
Prosthodontics
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1. *Fundamentals of Tooth Preparations for Cast Metal and Porcelain Restorations

2. Herbert T., Jr. Shillingburg
3. *Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics
4. Stephen F. Rosenstiel
5. *Boucher's Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous Patients
6. George A. Zarb
7. *Winkler essentials of complete denture prosthodontics
8. *Heart well and rahn syllabus of complete dentures
9. *Removable partial prosthodontics by Stewart
10. *Mc cracken's removable partial denture
11. Fenn prosthodontics
Periodontics
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1. *Carranza's Clinical Periodontology
2. By: Michael G. Newman, Henry H. Takei, and Fermin A. Carranza
3. Eley and Manson periodontics
4. *Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation
5. By: Jill S. Nield-Gehrig
Orthodontics
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1. Contemporary Orthodontics
2. William R. Proffit
3. *Grabers orthodontics
4. *Essentials of facial growth by enlow and Hans
Pharmacology
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1. *Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry
2. John A. Yagiela
3. Medical pharmacology 5th ed. by KD Tripathi
4. Malamed local anaesthesia
Pedodontics
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1. *Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent (8th Edition)
2. By Ralph E. McDonald (Editor), David R. Avery (Contributor)
3. Paediatric Dentistry: Infancy Through Adolescence (3rd Edition)
4. By J R Pinkham, P S Casamassimo, H W Fields Jr., D J McTigue, A J. Nowak
5. Shoba Tandon.
Conservative dentistry and endodontics
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1. *Sturdevents operative dentistry (Standard TextBook for operative dentistry)
2. Pathways to the pulp
3. COHEN and BURNS
4. *Ingles endodontics (Standard TextBook for endo)
5. Grossmann endodontics
6. Endodontic Therapy (Reference Book)
7. Franklin S. Weine (Reference Book)
8. Marzooks operative dentistry (Reference Book)
9. Charbeneau (Reference Book)
10. Guttman surgical endodontics. (Reference Book)
Community dentistry
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1. *Soben Peter.
NOTE
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1. All books given as Standard Textbook and with asterisks (*) are worth reading
cover to cover.
2. Refer the latest editions available as much as possible and dont forget to go
through the old ed. at least once for important chapters.
3. Dont loose heart at the volume of books mentioned. You already read through mo
st of them and so its easy to orient yourself.
4. Where I dont remember the exact name of the text I put forth the at least one
author's name and vice versa. Please bear with this.
5. The books given under the heading are standard texts to be followed and the r
eferences may be used for clarifications or in-depth understanding or for select
ive topics.
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