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Core textbooks - new editions just received
Handbook of pediatric dentistry / Angus C. Cameron, Richard P. Widmer(ed). 4th ed, Edinburgh; New York: Mosby Elsevier, 2013. Suitable for students and practitioners alike, the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry is a concise, practical and highly illustrated guide to the day-to-day management of child dental patients. The new edition has an improved layout with completely new colour illustrations, an expanded section on sedation, includes details from the most recent international guidelines, and has major revisions of chapters on behaviour management, restorative dentistry, management of cleft lip and palate and radiogra...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - October 11, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs

New Books
Source: Addiction - October 10, 2013 Category: Addiction Tags: NEW BOOKS Source Type: research

Is happiness found in our minds or in our wallets?
Three new books explore the origins of inequality, what scarcity does to our minds and how to teach your brain to be happy    
Source: New Scientist - The Human Brain - October 7, 2013 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

North Carolina ' s State Superintendent ' s Message for Teachers for the 2013-2014 school year.
This is how public education funds have been cut in my state, North Carolina:" Public schools enrolled 33,000 more students in 2013-14 than they did in 2008-09 yet these schools actually received more than $283 million less in state dollars than they did five years ago. " " Funds for textbooks should be $68 per student in 2013-14, but were reduced to $15 per student. That is a 78 percent reduction. Dollars for instructional supplies were reduced from$57 per student in 2008-09 to $29 per student in 2013-14. "After only a 1.2 percent raise last year and no raises for the three years preceding, lawmakers did not include ...
Source: TechPsych - October 3, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Unknown Source Type: blogs

New editions of important textbooks
Contemporary oral and maxillofacial surgery / James R. Hupp (ed). 6th ed, St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby, 2014. The 6th Edition enhances your skills in evaluation, diagnosis, and patient management. Full-color photographs and drawings show how to perform basic surgical techniques, and an overview of more advanced surgical procedures includes guidelines on when to refer patients to specialists and how to provide supportive postoperative care. This edition also includes the latest developments in dental implants, instrumentation, and current technology. Dental anatomy coloring book / Margaret J. Fehrenbach (ed). 2nd ed,...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - October 1, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs

Should I buy this book? How we construct prospective value
Nature Neuroscience 16, 1357 (2013). doi:10.1038/nn.3521 Authors: Jamil P Bhanji & Mauricio R Delgado People are able to form preferences for unfamiliar items, such as new books or foods, before experiencing them. A study in this issue of Nature Neuroscience finds that prospective evaluations of unfamiliar items can be based on stored neural representations of relevant, familiar items.
Source: Nature Neuroscience - September 25, 2013 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Jamil P BhanjiMauricio R Delgado Tags: News and Views Source Type: research

New textbooks received this week
Essentials of oral histology and embryology: a clinical approach. / Daniel J. Chiego. 4th ed, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier, 2014. With clear coverage of the anatomy of oral and facial tissues, Essentials of Oral Histology and Embryology: A Clinical Approach, 4th Edition, helps you understand normal orofacial development to prepare you to care for patients with abnormalities or dental pathologies. It provides a strong foundation in oral biology, focusing on the development and structure of cells and tissues, the stages of tooth development and maturation, and the parts of teeth including enamel, dentin, dental pulp, and ceme...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - September 24, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs

New books received this week
Dental statistics made easy / Nigel Smeeton. 2nd ed, London: Radcliffe Publishing, 2012. This essential textbook presents the complexities of dental statistics in a user friendly way . combining questions, analysis, advice and solutions to practical research problems. It focuses on the principles of statistics and how to apply that knowledge, without complex algebraic formulae. Fully revised and extended and now in its second edition this detailed guide covers new and emerging issues whilst retaining the original focus: understanding statistical concepts rather than the performance of routine calculations. Clin...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - September 20, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs

New Product Builds Better Brains
Did that tag line grab your attention? As parents, we’re under constant pressure to do whatever we can to give our children a leg up. Millions of dollars are spent marketing to us, most of it without any grounding in reality. What ‘new’ product does promote brain development? Apologies if you find it a stretch, but new books come out every week. read more
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - September 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Bertin, M.D. Tags: Health Media Parenting academic performance academic scores aspects of life attention spans brain connections brain development child development cognitive abilities correlates early childhood educational software habitual beha Source Type: news

New edition of core textbook - print and e-book versions now available
An introduction to orthodontics /Laura Mitchell. 4th ed, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. This textbook is highly illustrated throughout, including over 700 diagrams, clinical photographs and illustrated case studies that show the long-term planning and progress of orthodontic treatment. Each chapter is enhanced by learning objectives, key points boxes, annotated references, and directions to relevant Cochrane reviews. Orthodontic Assessment, Anchorage Planning, and Removable Appliances chapters are completely revised for the fourth edition.  Subscribe in a reader
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - September 16, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books E-books Source Type: blogs

Everything's Unscented
In conclusion, I believe that to be anosmic means that the world seems not so beautiful and also not so ugly. I believe that, aesthetically speaking, the world seems less.A Sense of LossIndividuals with congenital anosmia are in the minority of those who have olfactory dysfunctions, comprising only 3% of that population (Keller & Malaspina, 2013). The most common causes of smell problems are sinus and nasal disease, upper respiratory infection, and head trauma (see below). Traumatic brain injury can damage the olfactory bulbs if the brain bounces against the orbits and other bony protuberances inside the skull.Beco...
Source: The Neurocritic - September 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

The Journal of Legal Medicine Invites Article Submissions
The Journal of Legal Medicine invites submissions of articles addressing issues at the nexus of law and medicine. The Journal also welcomes substantive reviews of new books that intersect legal and medical topics. The Journal of Legal Medicine, the flagship...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 14, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

New Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist
This week, I tell you about three interesting nature, animals and psychology books that arrived recently.Below the jump, I mention the books that I received recently, either as gifts or as review copies, or that I purchased somewhere. These are the books that I may review in more depth later, either here or in print somewhere in the world. When I get new books, I like to share them with people. Unfortunately, you are all so far away, so I cannot host a book party in my crib where you can look then over, so I'll do the next best thing. I'll host a book party on my blog each Friday of the week when I either purchase books or...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 13, 2013 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist Tags: theguardian.com Blogposts Books Science and nature Source Type: news

New e-books
Bionanomaterials for dental applications / Mieczyslaw Jurczyk (ed). Boca Raton, Fla.: Pan Stanford Pub., 2012. This book introduces readers to the structure and characteristics of new dental nanomaterials, corrosion behavior of metallic biomaterials and implants, and methods of surface improvement of implants by means of nanoengineering, which determines the biocompatibility of such inserts. It thoroughly explains osseointegration from a biological viewpoint and early tissue response. Dento/oro/craniofacial anomalies and genetics / Agnès Bloch-Zupan, Crispian Scully. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012. Dental defects...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - September 6, 2013 Category: Dentists Tags: New books E-books Source Type: blogs

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