Dentistry

Dental Anatomy: 3D Images

August 3, 2005 /

University of Maryland Dental Student David Loewinger blogs this piece and image from his new dental anatomy textbook and CD.

I just opened up my Dental Anatomy book (Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology, and Occlusion) and it I started looking at the CD that comes with it. It has all sorts of 3D pictures including rotatable pictures of teeth and examples of jaw movement. I don’t know how much this will help since presumably we’ll have physical models of teeth to look at too, but for now it looks pretty cool.

Flap agrees a pretty cool image.

Flap wonders does any dental school still require the carving of wax replicas of teeth?

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4 Comments

  • Dave L

    August 3, 2005 at 10:58 am

    Thanks for the link. All the dental schools I interviewed at require you to carve teeth. That's one part of school that I'm definitely looking forward too.

  • Jonathan Reth

    August 3, 2005 at 12:44 pm

    Really enjoy your blog, great minds think alike;) Loma Linda Univ here, just started 2nd year. We spent 2 quarters waxing up morphology and occlusion. Our morphology text was a DVD only . . . but a bit bulky getting through all the info. Cheers, JR

  • Flap

    August 3, 2005 at 1:02 pm

    Thanks!

    When I was at USC we carved half the mouth (out of a solid block of carnuba wax) – one maxillary and one mandibular quadrant sine 3rd molars.

    The carvings were to scale and computers then used punch cards….LOL…..