Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Manual of Comparative Dental Anatomy for Dental Students: Prepared by Request of the National Association of Dental Faculties and Adopted as a Text-Book for Colleges August 27, 1898
Many branches of science are laid under contri bution to supply material for our special needs as dentists, and it is the province of dental text - books and teachers to select from the general store of ac cumulated facts just those which will be of service to the dental specialist; so Comparative Dental Anat omy is drawn upon for the sidelights it throws upon human odontography, as to both tooth forms and functions, as well as for the scientific study of the evolution and philosophy of tooth forms. The time was when it was necessary to apologize for the intrusion of Comparative Dental Anatomy into the curriculum of dental education; but it is a matter of congratulation that the value of this branch as an element in our professional education is now gen erally recognized. The study of the forms and functions of the teeth of other animals than man, as a means of conveying a better understanding of the forms and functional purposes of the human teeth, is now fully appreciated. It is also recog nized that this study furnishes the only scientific elucidation of the origin and principles of these forms and functions, which had heretofore been taught by the study of the human teeth alone.
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