FORAMINA AND PASSING STRUCTURES QUICK NOTES 📌 WHAT ARE FORAMINA? 🔹 Foramina are openings or holes in bones through which structures (nerves, blood vessels) pass. 🔹 These structures are essential for...
QUICK REVISION NOTES 📌 MOUTH (ORAL CAVITY) The mouth is the first part of the digestive system, playing a vital role in ingestion, mastication, taste, and speech. 1. Boundaries of Oral Cavity Roof:...
TOPIC: ANATOMY OF LARYNX 📌 INTRODUCTION: 🔹The larynx is the voice box – a short, tubular structure involved in phonation, breathing, and protection of lower airways. 🔹Extends from C3 to C6 vertebrae...
TOPIC: ANATOMY OF TONGUE 📌INTRODUCTION: The tongue is a muscular organ in the oral cavity, essential for taste, speech, mastication, deglutition, and oral hygiene. Divided anatomically and...
TOPIC: NERVE SUPPLY OF HEAD & NECK 📌OVERVIEW 👉 The head and neck region receives motor, sensory, and autonomic innervation from: 12 Cranial nerves (CN I–XII) Cervical spinal nerves (C1–C4) – from...
TOPIC: EMBRYOLOGY – Concise Notes 📌 INTRODUCTION 🔺Embryology is the study of prenatal development – from fertilization to birth. 🔺Divided into: General Embryology – early development (fertilization to...
TOPIC: BASIC INTRODUCTION OF HUMAN BODY ⭐ PRACTICE QUESTION & ANSWER 1. Which of the listed terms is described by: “All the chemical processes that take place in the organelles and cytoplasm of...
Struggling to remember the essential and non-essential amino acids? This blog post offers mnemonics to make memorization easier and even fun! Mnemonics are powerful memory aids that boost recall, and...
HMP SHUNT PATHWAY 📌 QUICK REVISION NOTES ➡️The HMP (Hexose Monophosphate Pathway) Shunt, also known as the 🔺Pentose Phosphate Pathway or 🔺Phosphogluconate Pathway, is a biochemical pathway that serves...
TOPIC: CHEMISTRY OF NUCLEOTIDES AND NUCLEIC ACID 📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER Q.1. What are nucleoproteins? Ans: Nucleoproteins are conjugated proteins, characterized by presence of non-protein...
TOPIC: VITAMINS 📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER Q.1. Define vitamins. Ans. Vitamins have been defined as organic compounds occurring in natural foods either as such or as utilizable “precursors”...
⭐ PRACTICE QUESTION & ANSWER Q.1. What are lipids? Define. Ans. The lipids are a heterogeneous group of organic compounds present in plant and animal tissues and related either actually or...
TOPIC: IMMUNOGLOBULIN 📌 PRACTICE QUESTION AND ANSWER Q.1. What is an antigen? Ans. Antigen is a substance which when introduced into an animal can induce a detectable immune response, which may be...
– Conceptual + viva-ready – I. Introduction to Dental Pulp 🔸Soft connective tissue in the center of the tooth 🔸Located in pulp chamber (crown) and root canal 🔸Embryological origin: Central cells of...
TOPIC: AMELOGENESIS, HA CRYSTALS & ENAMEL RODS 🔺Amelogenesis — the process by which enamel, the hardest tissue in the human body, is formed. 🔺The amelogenesis is a tightly regulated, multi-phase...
TOPIC: HISTOPHYSIOLOGY & MOLECULAR INSIGHTS 🔍 What is Histophysiology? 🔸It is the study of tissue structure (histology) along with function (physiology). 🔸In tooth development, it refers to how...
TOPIC: TOOTH DEVELOPMENT & OSTEOGENESIS REVISION NOTES 👉 Tooth development is a highly organized and complex biological process that starts early in embryonic life. It involves a series of...
QUICK REVISION NOTES 📌 Introduction to Osteology 🔸Osteology is the study of bones, which make up the skeletal system. 🔸The adult human skeleton has 206 bones. 🔸These bones are categorized into two...
TOPIC: CLASSIFICATION OF TEETH BASED ON THEIR NORMAL POSITION 📌 KEY POINTS FOR COMPLETE HUMAN DENTITION 🔷 DENTITION: Refers to all the teeth present in the mouth. 🔷 TWO SETS OF DENTITION Types of...
Spillway Spaces (Interproximal Spaces/Embrasures) 📌 QUICK NOTES: 🔹 Spillway spaces are triangular-shaped spaces adjacent to the contact areas of teeth. 🔹 Spillway spaces, also known as interproximal...
REPARATIVE DENTIN 📌 QUICK NOTES: Reparative dentin, also known as tertiary dentin, is formed in response to external stimuli such as trauma, caries, attrition, or dental procedures. It is produced by...
DENTAL ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY AND ORAL HISTOLOGY 🔎 Long Essay Q. Write an essay about tooth development. Add a note on histological and morphological differentiation of odontogenesis. Ans. 📌 Tooth...
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT FULCRUM LINES 📍 INTRODUCTION: In removable partial dentures (RPDs), achieving stability and retention is crucial for patient comfort and function. One of the key biomechanical...
TOPIC: OSSEOINTEGRATION AND MATERIALS 🎯 KEY FACTS 🔹The term osseointegration was coined by P.I. Branemark in 1977. 🔹Minimum period required for osseointegration of the implants in the maxilla is 6...
TOPIC: Introduction, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Dahl of Germany introduced the mucosal inserts or button implants for maxilla in 1940. 🔹Dahl also conceived the concept of the...
TOPIC: MAXILLOFACIAL DEFECTS AND PROSTHESIS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Rapid prototyping technology used in maxillofacial prosthodontics is used to create three-dimensional models from a three-dimensional...
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHODONTICS 🎯 KEY POINTS: 🔹Ambroise Pare (1517–1590) was first to close palatal perforations. 🔹Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was famous Danish astronomer who made an...
