for all dental and postgraduate students and as a useful
reference for all practitioners.
T. M. Graher
Principles and Practice of Orthodontics
J. R. E. Mills
New York, 1982, Churchill Livingstone. 251 pages.
illustrated, index. Price, $37.50
This book is a result of a lecture series that Pro-
fessor Mills has been giving for a number of years to
postgraduate students at Eastman Dental Hospital in
London. While based on lecture notes, the text has
been entirely rewritten to fulfill the need of a textbook
for graduate students. The subject matter is the “meat’ ’
of orthodontic training: growth and development, de-
velopment of the dentition, etiology of malocclusion,
orthodontic diagnosis, cephalometric radiology, treat-
ment planning, treatment of Class I, Class II, and Class
III malocclusions, problems of overbite, crossbite, cleft
palate, and surgical corrections.
Unfortunately, the confines of the book make it
difficult to do more than cover some of the subjects in a
limited manner; that is, growth and development in 15
pages, orthodontic diagnosis in 14 pages, etc. The il-
lustrations are spotty; some are excellent, while others
are almost completely washed out. The paper quality
and binding are quite good.
There is no question that American orthodontic
graduate students would enjoy reading what an eminent
leader of British orthodontics teaches his own post-
graduate students.
T. M. Graber
Lesions of the Jaw Bone-Radiographic
Features
Vivian J. Harris, Felix R. Lawrence, and Justo
Rodriguez
St. Louis, 1983, Warren H. Green, Inc. 177 pages.
illustrated, index. Price, $32.50
Since the orthodontist routinely uses panoral and
cephalometric radiography, he is likely to run across
some of the various tumor masses and disorders of the
jawbones that have been selected from a large number
of cases available at Cook County Hospital. The em-
phasis in the book is on masses in children. The authors
note the similarity in radiographic appearance of many
disorders. This means that the final diagnosis can be
made only when the complete clinical and histopatho-
logic aspects are known-a finding particularly perti-
nent for temporomandibular joint radiography in pa-
tients with TMJ complaints.
Partial contents of the book include panoramic
examination of the mandible; cysts of the jaws (benign,
traumatic, etc .); odontogenic tumors; ameloblastoma;
odontoma; nonodontogenic tumors; hemangioma, tera-
tomas; malignant tumors: chondrosarcoma; squamous
cell carcinoma; Burkitt ‘s lymphoma; fibro-osseous bone
lesions; fibrous dysplasia: acute and chronic osteomy-
elitis of the jaw; etc.
While many of the radiographs are not sufficiently
definitive as prints in a book, a number of them are
accompanied by line drawings to help with interpreta-
tion. The radiograph almost always loses diagnostic
value when printed. Production details are good. This
kind of book is valuable as a reference for all dental
practitioners, but especially for those who use imaging
procedures that are beyond the regular periapical films.
T. M. Grcrhr
Development of the Deciduous Dentition in
a Series of Finnish Children
Marietta Nystrdm
Proc. Finn. Dent. Sot. 7X:1-48. Supplements IV-VI, 1982
This report is part of an ongoing study that was
initiated in 1967-69 by the Departments of Pedodontics
and Orthodontics of the University of Helsinki. Three
hundred eighty-two children were seen at the first
examination and were examined at 6,9, and 12 months
and then semiannually until 1979. The number declined
during the investigation, being 214 at the 5-year exam-
ination. In 1981 the number was 185, with the subjects
ranging in age from 7 to 13 years.
Radiographs, casts, and anamnestic information
were correlated statistically. The following aspects were
studied: postnatal formation of some of the deciduous
teeth, clinical eruption of deciduous teeth, dental arch
dimensions, and spacing and occlusion during the com-
pleted deciduous dentition period.
The mean time of eruption of the first deciduous
tooth (mandibular central incisor) was 7.1 months. The
mean length of the interval between eruption of the first
and last deciduous teeth was 19.3 months, which is
shorter than has been previously reported. Sexual di-
morphism was minimal, with respect to both tooth
emergence and tooth formation. The most frequent
order of eruption in both the maxilla (63%) and the
mandible (91%) was central incisor, lateral incisor, first
deciduous molar, canine, and second deciduous molar.