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

SDM 501/502 – Dental Anatomy and Occlusion

Wheeler’s Dental Anatomy, Physiology & Occlusion, 11e
Waxing for Dental Students

SDM 503 – Preventive Dentistry/Periodontics & Disease Prevention

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 509 – Medical Sciences

Suggested: Robbins & Kumar Basic Pathology, 11e

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 511- Oral Biosciences

See course syllabus for suggested resources.

SDM 512- Pharmacology I

Katzung’s Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 16e

SDM 513 – Cariology

Dental Caries: The Disease and Its Clinical Management, 4e

SDM 514 – Spanish for Dental Professionals

Complete Medical Spanish, 3e
Spanish Terminology for the Dental Team, 3e
Suggested additional resource: Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation, 3e

SDM 515 – Anesthesia and Emergency Management

Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 7e
Katzung’s Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, 16e
Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office, 8e
Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry, 4e
Sedation: A Guide to Patient Management, 7e

SDM 516/517 – Prosthdontics I

Suggested resources:
Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous Patients: Complete Dentures and Implant-Supported Prostheses, 13e
Phillips’ Science of Dental Materials, 13e

SDM 521 – Gross Anatomy and Basic Neuroanatomy

Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 9e
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Anatomy Approach, 8e
Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, 6e
Larsen’s Human Embryology, 6e

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
Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 42e
Nolte’s The Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams, 5e
Netter Atlas of Neuroscience, 4e
Langman’s Medical Embryology, 15e
The Developing Human, 12e
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