QUICK REVISION NOTES ON PARANASAL SINUSES 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Air-filled bony cavities located in the face and skull adjacent to the nose. 🔹Derive their nomenclature from the bones that they...
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...
OSTEOLOGY OF SKULL 📌 TERMINOLOGY 🔹Canal: A long passage within bone that transits blood vessels and nerves 🔹Foramen: A natural opening or perforation through bone that permits transit of blood...
📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹Trochlear (4th) nerve is the only cranial nerve to emerge dorsally from the brain stem& has longest intra cranial course and most slender cranial nerve 🔹The artery that passes...
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...
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): 🔹 Spillway spaces are triangular-shaped spaces adjacent to the contact areas of teeth. 🔹 Spillway spaces, also known as interproximal spaces or...
REPARATIVE DENTIN: 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 odontoblasts...
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...
DENTAL ANATOMY, EMBRYOLOGY AND ORAL HISTOLOGY 🔍 LONG ANSWERS: Q: Classify oral mucus membrane. Write in detail about histology of gingiva. (15marks) Ans. 💡Classification of Oral Mucous Membrane The...
TOPIC: TOOTH NUMBERING SYSTEM 📌 KEY POINTS: Tooth numbering systems were originally developed as a shortcut to minimize the effort of hand-written record-keeping in dentistry. To identify a specific...
TOPIC: BASICS OF DENTAL ANATOMY ⭐ KEY POINTS: 📌 TOOTH: Teeth are mineralized structures except for the pulp and are located in the first part of the digestive tract. A tooth is defined as “one of the...
TOPIC: BASICS OF DENTAL ANATOMY 📌 KEY POINTS: A Tooth is defined as “One of the hard tissues that are positioned on the jaws and help in holding and mastication of food, also as weapons of offense and...
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...
