School of Dental Medicine Textbooks

Core textbooks for PNWU courses are available through our library databases. If you are away from campus, log in with your PNWU network username and password. For each separate resource you should create a personal user account to maximize the database features.

Year 1:

Scientific Foundations | Dental Anatomy & Occlusion | Preventive Dentistry | Operative Dentistry | Dental Materials | Community Health | Oral Clinical Sciences | Gross Anatomy | Medical Spanish

Titles without links and supplementary apps are provided by the School of Dental Medicine.

SDM 500 – Scientific Foundations of Medicine
Histology: A Text and Atlas with Correlated Cell and Molecular Biology, 9e
Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 10e
New! Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 11e
Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic & Clinical Applications, 6e
Guyton and Hall: Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14e
New! Guyton & Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 15e
Larsen’s Human Embryology , 6e
Human Embryology and Developmental Biology (Carlson), 7e
Marks’ Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach, 6e
Mims’ Medical Microbiology, 7e
Robbins, Cotran & Kumar Pathologic Basis of Disease, 11e (2026).

SDM 501/502 – Dental Anatomy and Occlusion
Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology & Occlusion, 11e
Waxing for Dental Students

SDM 503 – Preventive Dentistry
Newman and Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology and Implantology, 14e

SDM 504/505 – Operative Dentistry I
Summitt’s Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry: A Contemporary Approach, 4e

SDM 506/507 – Dental Materials
Suggested reading: Phillips’ Science of Dental Materials, 13e

SDM 508 – Community Health
Suggested reading: An Introduction to Community and Public Health, 10e

SDM 510 – Oral Clinical Sciences
Behavioral and Social Sciences for Oral Health Providers
Dental Ethics: A Primer.
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry, 4e

SDM 514 – Spanish for Dental Professionals
Complete Medical Spanish, 3e

SDM 521 – Gross Anatomy

Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 9e
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Anatomy Approach, 8e
Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, 6e
Human Embryology and Developmental Biology (Carlson), 7e

Optional:
Gray’s Anatomy for Students, 5e
Netter’s Clinical Anatomy, 5e
New! Neuroanatomy Atlas in Clinical Context – Structures, Sections, Systems, and Syndromes, 11e
Nolte’s The Human Brain, 9e
Nolte’s Essentials of The Human Brain, 2e
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