Description

Our understanding of internal dental anatomy is limited by our inability to see the interior of a tooth without cutting through it. But for a dentist working to find a way to see the interior of a tooth, the answer was diaphanization.


This atlas represents the breathtaking results of photographing human teeth that have been made transparent. Dr. Barrington has learned as many diaphanization methods as possible to understand how, where and why transparency can occur in a solid object and apply it to the structure of a tooth. The images in this atlas show the internal anatomy of the teeth with special emphasis on nerve  and vessel supply and their distribution in the pulpal cavity. For each image, the author follows a complex diaphanization method to make an extracted tooth transparent before photographing the intact internal tooth anatomy. Therefore, the images in this book show structures rarely seen so clearly and in three dimensions, including the pulpal cavity, apical anatomy, root canals, and pulpal pathology.

This atlas pushes our understanding of internal dental anatomy and serves as inspiration for what an individual can do to advance knowledge in dental surgery.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The First Results

Chapter 2. Varied Outcomes and Exposures of the Vascularity of Human Teeth

Chapter 3. Apical Anatomy

Chapter 4. Channel Anatomy

Chapter 5. Dual Staining

Chapter 6. Early Work

Chapter 7. Pathology

Chapter 8. Raschkow Plexus