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RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
1. Human anatomy, embryology, histology & medical genetics
1. SNELL (Richard S.) Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students, Ed. 5, Llittle Brown &
company, Boston.
2. RJ LAST’S Anatomy – McMinn, 9th edition.
3. ROMANES(G.J.) Cunningham Manual of Practical Anatomy : Head & Neck &
Brain Ed.15.Vol.III, Oxford Medical publication.
4. WHEATER,BURKITT & DANIELS, Functional Histology, Ed. 2, Churchill
Livingstone.
5. SADLER , LANGMAN’S, Medical Embryology, Ed. 6.
6. JAMES E ANDERSON, Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy. Williams & Wilkins.
7. WILLIAMS, Gray’s Anatomy, Ed.38. ,Churchill Livingstone.
8. EMERY,Medical Genetics.

2. Physiology
1. Guyton; Text book of Physiology, 9th edition.
2. Ganong; Review of Medical Physiology, 19th edition
3. Vander; Human physiology, 5th edition
4. Choudhari; Concise Medical Physiology, 2nd edition
5. Chaterjee; Human Physiology, 10th edition
6. A.K. Jain; Human Physiology for BDS students, 1st edition
7. Berne & Levey; Physiology, 2nd edition
8. West-Best & Taylor’s, Physiological basis of Medical Practise, 11th edition

EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY:
1. Rannade; Practical Physiology, 4th edition
2. Ghai; a text book of practical physiology
3. Hutchison’s; Clinical Methods, 20th edition

3. Biochemistry
1. Concise text book of Biochemistry (3rd edition) 2001, T.N. Pattabiraman 2. Nutritional Biochemistry 1995, S. Ramakrishnan and S.V. Rao
3. lecture notes in Biochemistry 1984, J.K. Kandlish

Reference books:
4. Text book of Biochemistry with clinical correlations 1997, T.N. Devlin
5. Harper’s Biochemistry, 1996., R.K. Murray et.al Basic and applied Dental Biochemistry, 1979, R.A.D. Williams & J.C.Elliot

4. Oral Biology
1. Orban's Oral Histology & Embryology - S.N.Bhaskar 2. Oral Development & Histology - James & Avery
3. Wheeler's Dental Anatomy, Physiology & Occlusion - Major.M.Ash
4. Dental Anatomy - its relevance to dentistry - Woelfel & Scheid
5. Applied Physiology of the mouth - Lavelle
6. Physiology & Biochemistry of the mouth - Jenkins

5. General Pathology
1. Robbins – Pathologic Basis of Disease Cotran, Kumar, Robbins
2. Anderson’s Pathology Vol 1 & 2 Editors – Ivan Damjanov & James Linder
3. Wintrobe’s clinical Haematolog Lee, Bithell, Foerster, Athens, Lukens

6. Microbiology
1. Text book of Microbiology – R.Ananthanarayan & C.K.Jayaram Paniker. 2. Medical Microbiology – David Greenwood et al.
3. Microbiology – Prescott, et al.
4. Microbiology – Bernard D. Davis , et al.
5. Clinical & Pathogenic Microbiology – Barbara J Howard, et al.
6. Mechanisms of Microbial diseases – Moselio Schaechter, et al.
7. Immunology an Introduction – Tizard
8. Immunology 3rd edition – Evan Roitt , et al.

7. Dental Materials
1. Phillips Science of Dental Materials – 10th edn.- Kenneth J. Anusavice
2. Restorative Dental Materials - 10 edn. Robert G.Craig
3. Notes on Dental Materials - E.C. Combe
8. General and dental pharmacology and therapeutics

1. R.S.Satoskar, Kale Bhandarkar’s Pharmacology and Pharmacolherapentics, 10th Edition, Bombay Popular Prakashan 1991.
2. Bertam G Katzung, Basic and Clinical pharmacology 6th ed. Appleton & Lange 1997
3. Lauerence D.R. Clinical Pharmacology 8th ed. Churchill Livingstone 1997
4. Satoskar R.S. & Bhandarkar S.D., Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics part I & part ii, 13th Popular Prakashan Bombay 1993
5. Tripathi K.D., Essentials of Medical Pharmacology 4th ed Jaypee Brothers 1999.

9. General Medicine
Textbook of Medicine Davidson
Textbook of Medicine Hutchinson

10. General Surgery
Short practice of Surgery Baily & Love

11. Oral Pathogy & Microbiology

1. A Text Book of Oral Pathology Shafer, Hine & Levy
2. Oral Pathology - Clinical Pathologic correlations Regezi & Sciubba.
3. Oral Pathology Soames & Southam.
4. Oral Pathology in the Tropics Prabhu, Wilson, Johnson & Daftary

12. Public Health Dentistry
1. Dentistry Dental Practice and Community by David F. Striffler and Brain A. Burt, Edn. –1983, W. B. Saunders Company
2. Principles of Dental Public Health by James Morse Dunning, IVth Edition, 1986, Harward University Press.
3. Dental Public Health and Community Dentistry Ed by Anthony Jong Publication by The C. V. Mosby Company 1981
4. Community Oral Health-A system approach by Patricia P. Cormier and Joyce I. Levy published by Appleton-Century-Crofts/ New York, 1981
5. Community Dentistry-A problem oriented approach by P. C. Dental Hand book series Vol.8 by Stephen L. Silverman and Ames F. Tryon, Series editor-Alvin F. Gardner, PSG Publishing company Inc. Littleton Massachuseltts, 1980.
6. Dental Public Health- An Introduction to Community Dentistry. Edition by Geoffrey L. Slack and Brain Burt, Published by John Wrigth and sons Bristol, 1980
7. Oral Health Surveys- Basic Methods, 4th edition, 1997, published by W. H. O. Geneva available at the regional office New Delhi.
8. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene-By Maxcy and Rosenau, published by Appleton Century Crofts, 1986.
9. Preventive Dentistry-by J. O. Forrest published by John Wright and sons Bristoli, 1980.
10. Preventive Dentistry by Murray, 1997.
11. Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine by Park and park, 14th edition.
12. Community Dentistry by Dr. Soben Peter.
13. Introduction to Bio-statistics by B. K. Mahajan
14. Research methodology and Bio-statistics by
15. Introduction to Statistical Methods by Grewal

13. Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
1. Pediatric Dentistry (Infancy through Adolescences) – Pinkham.
2. Clinical Use of Fluorides – Stephen H. Wei.
3. Understanding of Dental Caries – Niki Foruk.
4. Handbook of Clinical Pedodontics – Kenneth. D.
5. Dentistry for the Child and Adolescence – Mc. Donald.
6. Pediatric Dentistry – Damle S. G.
7. Behaviour Management – Wright
8. Traumatic Injuries – andreason.

14. Oral Medicine and Radiology

a) Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine & Oral Pathology
1. Burkit – Oral Medicine – J.B. Lippincott Company
2. Coleman – Principles of Oral Diagnosis – Mosby Year Book
3. Jones – Oral Manifestations of Systemic Diseases – W.B. Saunders company
4. Mitchell – Oral Diagnosis & Oral Medicine
5. Kerr – Oral Diagnosis
6. Miller – Oral Diagnosis & Treatment
7. Hutchinson – clinical Methods
8. Oral Pathology – Shafers
9. Sonis.S.T., Fazio.R.C. and Fang.L - Principles and practice of Oral Medicine

b) Oral Radiology
1. White & Goaz – Oral Radiology – Mosby year Book
2. Weahrman – Dental Radiology – C.V. Mosby Company
3. Stafne – Oral Roentgenographic Diagnosis – W.B.Saunders Co.,

c) Forensic Odontology
1. Derek H.Clark – Practical Forensic Odontology - Butterworth-Heinemann (1992)
2. C Michael Bowers, Gary Bell – Manual of Forensic Odontology - Forensic Pr (1995)

15. Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
1. Contemporary Orthodontics William R. Proffit
2. Orthodontics For Dental Students White And Gardiner
3. Handbook Of Orthodontics Moyers
4. Orthodontics - Principles And Practice Graber
5. Design, Construction And Use Of Removable Orthodontic Appliances C. Philip Adams
7. Clinical Orthodontics: Vol1 & 2 Salzmann

16. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Implantology
1. Impacted teeth; Alling John F & etal.
2. Principles of oral and maxillofacial surgery; Vol.1,2 & 3 Peterson LJ & etal.
3. Handbook of medical emergencies in the dental office, Malamed SF.
4. Killeys Fractures of the mandible; Banks P.
5. Killeys fractures of the middle 3rd of the facial skeleton; Banks P.
6. Killey and Kays outline of oral surgery – Part-1; Seward GR & etal
7. Essentials of safe dentistry for the medically compromised patients; Mc Carthy FM
8. Extraction of teeth;Howe, GL
9. Minor Oral Surgery; Howe.GL

17. Prosthodontics, Crown & Bridge, Aesthetic Dentistry & Oral Implantology
1. Syllabus of Complete denture by - Charles M. Heartwell Jr. and Arthur O. Rahn .
2. Boucher’s “Prosthodontic treatment for edentulous patients”
3. Essentials of complete denture prosthodontics by – Sheldon Winkler.
4. Maxillofacial prosthetics by – Willam R.Laney.
5. McCraken’s Removable partial prosthodontics
6. Removable partial prosthdontics by – Ernest L. Miller and Joseph E. Grasso.

18. Periodontology and Oral Implantology
1. Glickman’s Clinical Periodontology—Carranza

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Essentials of Periodontology and periodontics- Torquil MacPhee
2. Contemporary periodontics- Cohen
3. Periodontal therapy- Goldman
4. Orbans’ periodontics- Orban
5. Oral Health Survey- W.H.O.
6. Preventive Periodontics- Young and Stiffler
7. Public Health Dentistry- Slack
8. Advanced Periodontal Disease- John Prichard
9. Preventive Dentistry- Forrest
10. Clinical Periodontology- Jan Lindhe
11. Periodontics- Baer & Morris.

19. Conservative, endodontics & aesthetic dentistry
1. Esthetic guidelines for restorative dentistry; Scharer & others
2. Esthetics of anterior fixed prosthodontics; Chiche (GJ) & Pinault (Alain)
3. Esthetic & the treatment of facial form, Vol 28; Mc Namara (JA)

20. Esthetic Dentistry
Esthetic guidelines for restorative dentistry; Scharer & others
Esthetics of anterior fixed prosthodontics; Chiche (GJ) & Pinault (Alain)
Esthetic & the treatment of facial form, Vol 28; Mc Namara (JA)

21. Forensic Odontology
1. Practical Forsenic odontology – Derek Clark

22. Oral Implantology
1. Contemporary Implant Dentistry - Carl .E. Misch Mosby 1993 First Edition.
2. Osseointegration and Occlusal Rehabilitation Hobo S., Ichida .E. and Garcia L.T. Quintessence Publishing Company, 1989 First Edition.

23. Behaviourial Science
1. General psychology -- Hans Raj, Bhatia
2. Behavioural Sciences in Medical practice -- Manju Mehta

24. Ethics
1. Medical Ethics, Francis C.M., I Ed. 1993, Jaypee Brothers, New Delhi p. 189.

List of Journals
1. Journal of Dentistry
2. British Dental Journal
3. International Dental Journal
4. Dental Abstracts
5. Journal of American Dental Association
6. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
7. Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine
8. Journal of Periodontolgy
9. Journal of Endodontics
10. American journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedic
11. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
12. Journal of Public Health Dentistry
13. Endodontics and Dental Traumatology
14. Journal of Dental Education
15. Dental Update
16. Journal of Dental Material