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OPERATIVE TECHNICS

CHAPTER I

DENTAL ANATOMY

HOW TO STUDY IT—HOW TO PERFORM THE TECH-
NIC OPERATIONS—HOW TO REVIEW FOR EX-
AMINATION

Text-books.—Dental Anatomy, Black; or Anatomy and Histology of the Mouth
and Teeth, Broomell and Fischelis.

HOW TO STUDY THE SUBJECT

The study of Dental Anatomy will develop into an inter-

esting and profitable pastime or a dull and lifeless labor, de-
pending upon the standpoint from which its intricacies are
approached. In a sense, it is really the foundation on which
is to be built all dental knowledge, a thorough famiharity with
the external and internal forms of the teeth, their points of
interest and their intimate relationships with each other being

absolutely essential to a complete understanding of the other
branches of the curriculum. It has a direct bearing on all of
these subjects, and the student should realize now that if he

wishes to become proficient in the science and art of filling
teeth, of making crowns, bridges and plates, and all of the
procedures incident to the practice of dentistry,he should first
learn this subject. In making the drawings, carving the blocks
and filing the sections—in performing all the technic opera-
tions—he should do so intelligently and thoroughly, and with

the view to deriving as much practical benefit as^possible from