Mind Map

In 1864, S.C. Barnum, a New York City dentist, introduced the rubber dam into dentistry. Use of the rubber dam ensures appropriate dryness of the teeth and improves the quality…

Dental instruments are the tools that dental professionals use to provide dental treatment. They include tools to examine, manipulate, restore and remove teeth and surrounding oral structures. Standard instruments are…

Historically, dental extractions have been used to treat a variety of illnesses, as well as a method of torture to obtain forced confessions. Before the discovery of antibiotics, chronic tooth…

When a tooth is unable to fully enter the mouth, it is said to be "impacted." In general, impacted teeth are unable to break through the gums because there is…

Dental cements are widely used in dentistry. They can all have different clinical uses in dentistry. Cements can be used as base material, temporary  filling material and luting. There are…

It is mindmap time! In a response to my tweet requesting for a dental tweeps interested in volunteer collaborative mind mapping work, Dr. Nujud Alamry has joined the team and produced a nice…

Today I am posting about Endodontic Diagnosis, but a mindmap format. Endodontic Diagnosis is defined by the American Association of Endodontist in their Glossary of Endodontic Terms as: The art and science…

Frederick S. McKay, Margaret Cammack Smith, and Howard V. Smith were the scientists who believed that “something in the water” was discoloring teeth of people in certain locales.’ They showed…