Books

EoghanIRL

I made it through the first two years of dentistry without buying many books at all and using the library if I really had to reference something.
However most people seem to buy books for the clinical years(3-5) ?
Many students who graduated seem to be selling off books at this time of year at good prices.
So my question is which books would you highly recommend or consider essential?
I presume people here would have used some text book even if the edition has changed since.

Big_G

I didn't buy a single text book in the clinical years of dental school. But I may not be a good example to follow. I've bought a couple since that would be completely irrelevant for dental school but are worth getting. McCracken's partial dentures might be a good one, craig's dental materials, rosenstiel fixed pros maybe. All those should be in the library though. Pathways to the pulp, carranza perio etc.

EoghanIRL

Some people seem to buy lots of text books while others don't I guess. Probably will just wait it out and only buy if necessary.
It's seems easy to get pulled into the text book buying frenzy that happens at the start of the year.

A good lesson for others to learn too. Rushed out and purchased a biochem text book during first year as everyone seemed to be purchasing text books like mad. Sitting on my shelf never really used. What you will find often is that since the lecturers use the text books anyway to make notes, they have already selected the important information.

Anyway if anyone else has anything to say about text books they found useful or considered worth having a copy of, I'm all ears!

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Books are pretty irrelevant in this internet age. Read them in the library, there is no better way to get your foundations solid, but as reference material in the future the book has become irrelevant. My book and journal collection set in my office untouched, only here as a monument to my vast knowledge

Subscription to dental XP is better value.

EoghanIRL

Good advice.

I was under the impression that books were important for the clinical years as lots of people seem to have them.
Don't want to buy books just for them to sit on a shelf unopened either.
Been fine without buying them so far, don't see why it should change.

Thanks for the input.

capnsparkles

Always liked the Churchill and Livingstone books , handy to have an oral surgery and pathology book.
Its been a while , but I still use those books as reference.