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Color Atlas & Textbook of Oral Anatomy: Histology and Embryology

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Berkovitz and coworkers provide pictures, pictures, pictures of exquisite quality. There is no more successful method for teaching histology than through numerous sections coupled with a de-emphasis on description. This text is like having a microscope at your fingertips and pre-dental/medical and graduate students rave about the book. Given the embryological format, the macro and micro portions dovetail quite well. Some dissapointing picture quality of head and neck structures and dental gross anatomy photographs are too small to grasp occlusal morphology. The comparative mammalian dental anatomy section is nice. Missing only is exposure to forensic odontology as applied responsibility for both clinician and academician to explore.

I found this text useful as a reference text as a dental educator. It is comprehensive and the color histological references are very clearly presented. The photographs of the teeth, as well as the gross anatomical sections, seem slightly out of focus in this edition. Information is presented with references that are further useful and up to date, especially when considering research in the hard dental and neural tissues. I refer to it constantly in my studies.

Although more updated information has been added to the previous edition, much of the COMPARATIVE PART have been removed. This is disappointing since the chapter was the main reason I bought the book. I also found that the quality of photographs is inferior to the previous edition.

This is a great textbook in that it covers a lot of ground and is therefore a good introduction to various areas relevant to dentistry. However I bought it mainly for the histology and embryology, and my opinion having now started reading Ten Cate's Oral Histology is that this book inferior in this respect.

Embryology/histology sections seem both too detailed (eg. listing a variety signalling molecules and matrix components without necessarily explaining their role) and too weak in painting an overall picture of what is happening. This makes for a slow read where I constantly have sort what is important to know and what's putative conjecture -- I personally had a better experience reading Ten Cate's book (which is also very detailed but perhaps better written).

This book is beautiful -- it has incredibly clear photographs and other illustrations. The down side is it has way too much detail. I am a first year dental student, and I find this book pretty much impossible to read. It's probably somewhat readable for more advanced students/professionals, but it's definitely not for my level.

I bought this book for first year dental. This book has the best pictures and dissections. It is very detailed yet easy to read. I highly recommend it.