Product Description

The updated 8th edition of this classic reference provides a visually-oriented presentation of dental macromorphology and evidence-based chronologies of the human dentitions, while reflecting definitive shifts in modern dental practice. New features include an enhanced reader-friendly approach, new color illustrations, and a greater emphasis on clinical applications. A new, interactive CD-ROM offers three-dimensional animations of masticatory movements – including tooth contact relationships and temporomandibular joint movements – that bring the text's illustrations to life. Plus, an interactive mock examination mimics the National Board exam for outstanding review and practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #796363 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 520 pages

About the Author
Major M Ash, Jr., DDS, MS, Department of Occlusion, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor MI; and Stanley Nelson, DDS, MS, Department of Restorative Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Customer Reviews

Hands down, the worst text in the history of mankind.
Wheeler should have his dental license revoked, even if he knows his dental anatomy. I say this because he has no capacity to organize, no sense of what makes things understandable, and absolutely no clue whatsoever what a diagram or illustration is used for. This text is a disgrace to the dental field, because it makes all dental professionals look incompetent, and unable to convey information effectively.

Dental anatomy is a collection of facts that should be presented either in list form, or as text attached to a WELL-LABELED diagram, with SOME description of what's going on. Instead, wheeler presents the data in lengthy prose (which, despite its boring length, is frequently unthorough). The text is loaded with blank diagrams, some shaded/contoured, some simply line drawings, and some drawn on a graph background, almost none of which have any kind of in-graphic labeling. The only description of the illustration comes at the bottom of it, and is nothing more than an identification of tooth and aspect of the picture. In addition, he fills up the book with idiotic pictures of real teeth side-by-side which vary greatly and essentially confuse matters. Needless to say, he never bothers to label anything within these pictures.

It's extremely difficult to use this book to learn from. It's excessively tedious to get the information from the text, and almost impossible to make use of the illustrations. It's as if he initially wrote the text with no intent of including illustrations, then, at the request of others, threw in the illustrations at the very end. Apparently, Wheeler was too lazy to actually WRITE SOMETHING ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS!

If you are a dental student, and your professor recommends this book, save your money. This book is high-school. I'd give it zero stars if I could.

AWFUL
This is the most awfully written book I've read. Unfortunately, this happens to be "the bible" (!!?!??) in dental anatomy.

It's boring, and the illustrations aren't clear and do not correspond well to the text.

The author should be killed twice.

Very unfortunately it is the main text in our dental anatomy course.

Is this what we've come to?
Dentistry is a profession full of the "best and brightest" isn't it? Well then who OK'd this vile, vomitous, asinine, random collection of information, organized and edited by a chimp, and proofread by a ladybug, to be published? There is no excuse for this. This is just another example of the rampant intellectual laziness and smugness alive and well in our dental schools. "Its the only text, so they have to read it, right?" Why are dental schools underfunded? Because we don't want to send you any money after you make us wade through this sewer of a book. I had to go back and teach myself all the dental anatomy I DIDN'T learn from this book before my national boards, and I was #2 in the class. We shouldn't have to put up with this garbage. Dental anatomy does not have to be a nightmare if someone would, umm, really organize the information maybe? You will be much better off if you just get the part 1 dental decks to learn your dental anatomy. This is absolutely shameful and a black mark on dental education.