Book Review
Dental materials in operative dentistry
Dental materials science has traditionally been a challenging subject to present to both undergraduates and postgraduate dental practitioners Any dentist is able to recognise that if they are to place a material in a patient's mouth during operative dentistry, then it is entirely reasonable to know what is in it. This new addition to the Quintessentials series embraces the task and succeeds in being an easily read and informative text.This book gives an excellent overview in this respect, addressing the clinical relevance of a wide range of materials and the underpinning science that gives the rationale for their use To this end, there are many photographs of 'clinical' procedures, and perhaps the only criticism of the book is that more of this type of illustration could have been included to support the underlying science.

Dental materials in operative dentistry
A. J. Crothers