Mary Paterson 
Principles of Endodontics and Conservative Dentistry 

Conservative Dentistry is the branch of dentistry which is concerned with the conservation of teeth in the mouth. It involvesoperative dentistry and endodontics, and includes various kinds of direct and indirect restorations of individual teeth in themouth. Preclinical Conservative Dentistry has assumed a lot of significance with relevance to the rapid progress made indental materials and instruments. This textbook forms the basis and backbone for a dental student for his future clinicaltraining. It is of greater importance in view of the fact that the fundamentals of the subject are clearly and properly impartedto the dental student. The main objective of this book is to provide students with the knowledge required while they aredeveloping necessary clinical skills and attitude in their undergraduate training in conservative dentistry and endodontics.The book covers wide topics like morphology of teeth, cariology, different techniques, instruments and materials availablefor restorations of teeth along with the basics of endodontics. After going through this book, the student would be able toorganize their operating environment efficiently. This edition will provide dental students with the most up to dateinformation in the field. This text provides step-by-step pictures and illustrations of the various laboratory exercises, whichstudents have to learn and perform in their course for the conservative dentistry and endodontics examination. This is theonly book of its kind that would serve as a guide for learning as well as practicing the exercises on models in the preclinicallaboratory.