Text book recommendations for BDS

Dental
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:pushpin:1st year
1.General Anatomy - BD Chaurasia
2.General Human Physiology- K Sembulingam or AK Jain
3.Bio-chemistry- Sathyanarayan but mostly notes.
4.Dental Anatomy, Embryology and Oral Histology- Wheelers, Rajkumar,Ramya

:pushpin:2nd year
1.General Pathology - Harsh mohan
2.Microbiology - CP Baveja or Ananthanarayan and Paniker’s
3.General and Dental Pharmacology - KD Tripathi
4.Dental Materials - Phillips or John J Manappallil

:pushpin:3rd year
1.General Medicine - Davidson but prefer notes
2.General Surgery - Manipal manual of surgery
3.Oral Pathology - Shafers

:pushpin:4th year
1.Oral Medicine and Radiology - Ravikiran Ongole and ghom for radiology.
2.Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry - Shobha Tandon
3.Orthodontics - S Gowri Sankar
4.Periodontology - Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology
5.Prosthodontics - Deepak Nallaswamy
6.Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics - Nisha Garg & Amit Garg, Sturdevant’s
7.Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - SM Balaji
8.Public Health Dentistry - Soban peter

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I referred the same books !Though i referred BALAJI for Ortho, it was easy to read and TARA SHANBHAG for Pharma.

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Thanks for sharing

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Very helpful post for dental students. Gowri shanker is indeed a great book to refer. But i referred most of orthodontics topics from S.I Bhalaji.

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Pretty detailed recommendation.
Thanks!
@Theresa-lily