# Text book recommendations for BDS
**URL:** https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193
**Category:** Dental
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193 "2025-07-02T05:15:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@LakshmiBarathi](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/LakshmiBarathi)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/1 "2025-07-02T05:15:59Z")
📌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
📌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
📌3rd year
1.General Medicine - Davidson but prefer notes
2.General Surgery - Manipal manual of surgery
3.Oral Pathology - Shafers
📌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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### Author:  [@poonam1](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/poonam1)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 8:32am UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/2 "2025-07-02T08:32:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@Nandhini\_23](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/Nandhini_23)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/3 "2025-07-02T16:24:13Z")
Thanks for sharing
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### Author:  [@drelu5](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/drelu5)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/4 "2025-07-20T18:44:12Z")
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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### Author:  [@Hbdoctor](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/Hbdoctor)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/5 "2025-07-21T00:15:38Z")
Pretty detailed recommendation.
Thanks!
@Theresa-lily
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### Author:  [@Abinaya1216](https://www.medboundhub.com/u/Abinaya1216)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://www.medboundhub.com/t/text-book-recommendations-for-bds/4193/6 "2025-10-01T17:44:27Z")
much needed info