Dental Terminology Research Articles

The taper of inlay and crown preparations. A contribution to dental terminology.

The taper of inlay and crown preparations. A contribution to dental terminology.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this articleIn May, 1974, the c. v. Mosby Company of St. Louis, Missouri, announced publication of Edition Two of “Current Clinical Dental Terminology; a Glossary of Accepted Terms in Disciplines of Dentistry.”“DENTAL ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT; Tools, Technics and Skills,” written by Glen E. Robinson, DMD, MPH. and M. Gene Newport, PhD, and published by Charles C. Thomas, Publishers of Springfield, Illinois, in hard covers, on May 30, 1974An unusual publication by William E. Brown as Editor, and titled “Oral Health, Dentistry, and the American Public; the Need for an Improved Oral Care Delivery System”On July 15, 1974, the first copy of Edition Two of the “Manual for Children's Dental Care Programs”“Dnental public Health; an introduction to Community Dentistry” became available June 27t 1974, The Editors are Geoffrey L. Slack and Brian A. Burt.Anderson, J. L., et al. “Consumers' Dental Bible.” Neenah, Wis., Project p, Inc.

Using the term “centric”

“Centric” is an old term that would be almost impossible to eliminate from dental terminology. It seems prudent, then, that the term be used correctly and that simple, usable definitions of centric relation and centric occlusion be employed. The word “centric” is an adjective that should not be made to function as a noun. Centric relation is a bone-to-bone (mandible to maxillae) relation. Centric occlusion is a tooth-to-tooth relation (mandibular teeth to maxillary teeth). Therefore, centric relation and centric occlusion are not the same by definition; however, often they both can exist at the same time.

ARALOMYS GLIKMANI - A NEW SPECIES OF HAMSTER (CRICETIDAE)

Aralomys glilcmani (Rodentia: Cricetidae) is described as new, from the Upper Oligocene or Lower Miocene Aral formation of the northern shore of the Aral Sea. The dental terminology proposed for cricetids by Hershkovitz (1943) is used with modifications. The dentition of the hamsters from the Agispe fauna is comparable to that of Lower Miocene hamsters elsewhere in Eurasia, but Late Oligocene ecological peculiarities may also account for the advanced aspect of the Agispe hamsters. — Clayton E. Ray.

Standardization of Dental Terminology

Standardization of Dental Terminology

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Men, Manners and Molars, by Edward SamsonSensory Mechanisms in Dentine, edited by D. J. AndersonDental Anthropology, edited by D. R. BrothwellOral Roentgenographic Diagnosis, by Edward C. StafneCurrent Clinical Dental Terminology, edited by C. O. Boucher