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Essentials of

ORTHODONTICS Fourth Edition

Essentials of Orthodontics provides a comprehensive overview of all areas of Orthodontics, from Growth and Development to
retention and relapse, and to refresh the student’s memory of the fundamentals necessary for diagnosis and treatment planning.
The significant information presented in highly organized framework will successfully suit various educational settings be it exam
preparation or understanding theoretical models or practical implications for clinical practice. This fourth edition is upgraded and

Essentials of
offers more succinct content based on the enormous current knowledge available in the theory and clinical sector of orthodontics. It
satisfies the syllabus norms of Dental Council of India (DCI) and various international universities.
What’s unique in this book?
• Mind maps in each chapter for the first time in a book from India introduced exclusively for students to revise, remember, and
write in their exams
Essentials of

ORTHODONTICS
• Vital points at the end of each chapter
• Content on Incisor Edge–Centroid Relationship/Edge–Centroid Relationship
• Neatly organized and presented chapter on Functional Appliances

ORTHODONTICS
• Illustrations that can be readily associated with the learned concepts for correlation, interpretation and recollection by the students
• Contains 11 sections with each chapter containing optimized chapter outline to provide a gist of what to explore in chapter
What’s new in this edition?
• Lasers in Orthodontics

Fourth Edition
• Multi-colour format
• Colour photo templates in chapters
• Friction in Orthodontics
• Mini screw assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE)
• Retention with Regard to Different Types of Malocclusion
• Tables, flowcharts, boxes and figures that are revisited, revised and refurbished
• Revamped chapter on cephalometrics
• Refurnished Index of orthodontic treatment need
• Influence of drugs during orthodontic tooth movement

Sridhar Premkumar, MDS is a well-recognized author currently working as Professor and Head, Department of
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics; formerly Principal-in-charge, at Tamil Nadu Government Dental College
and Hospital, Chennai, India.
He joined Tamil Nadu Government service by securing First rank in the Public Service Commission examination. He
has numerous publications to his credit and is an active researcher; acclaimed speaker in national forums and reviewer
in international and national journals.
He is a certified biomedical waste trainer for Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project and also certified Reiki and Pranic healer.
He is recipient of two times “State Best Clinical Award” conducted by Indian Dental Association, Tamil Nadu chapter;
“Best Teacher for Dental Faculty” in the year 2010 by The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University and “Best Doctor Award” in the year 2018
by the Government of Tamil Nadu. He is also recipient of National awards like three times “All India Best Research paper” award conducted First Indian book to introduce
by Indian Orthodontic Society including the 8th Asia Pacific Orthodontic Conference (APOC), and the 47th Indian Orthodontic Conference
MIND MAPS for Students

Edition
Fourth
(IOC). He has co-authored presentation in American Association of Orthodontics meeting at Boston, 2009. His name included among the
biographic records in “2013, 30th Pearl Anniversary edition of Who’s Who in the World: Published from USA” as a honour. REVISE : REMEMBER : WRITE
He has authored five textbooks out of which three books: Graber’s Textbook of Orthodontics: Basic Principles and Practice,
Orthodontics: Exam Preparatory Manual for Undergraduates, and Textbook of Orthodontics from Elsevier and he also has
two more books: Textbook of Craniofacial Growth, and Manual of Pediatric Dentistry through Jaypee Brothers.

Sridhar Premkumar
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