Reference Texts for National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) Part II

National Board test items are not based on specific textbooks. References used by NBDE Part II
item writers include, but are not limited to, the latest editions of the following:

Endodontics
Cohen’s Pathways of the Pulp, Hargreaves and Berman (Elsevier)
Endodontics: Principles and Practice, Torabinejad, et al. (Elsevier)
Grossman’s Endodontic Practice, Krishna and Chandra (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Ingle’s Endodontics, Rotstein and Ingle (People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH))
Seltzer and Bender’s Dental Pulp, Hargreaves, et al. (Quintessence Publishing Co. Inc.)

Operative Dentistry
Craig’s Restorative Dental Materials, Sakaguchi, et al. (Elsevier)
Dental Materials: Foundations and Applications, Powers and Wataha (Elsevier)
Dental Materials, Properties and Manipulation, Powers and Wataha (Elsevier/Mosby)
Phillips’ Science of Dental Materials, Anasuvice, et al. (Elsevier/Saunders)
Sturdevant’s Art and Science of Operative Dentistry, Ritter, et al. (Elsevier)
Summitt’s Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry: A Contemporary Approach, Hilton, et al.
(Quintessence Publishing Co. Inc.)
Textbook of Operative Dentistry, Garg and Garg (Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, Ltd.)

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Pain Control

Atlas of Operative Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Haggerty and Laughlin (Wiley-Blackwell)
Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hupp, et al. (Elsevier)
Essentials of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Pogrel, et al. (Wiley-Blackwell)
Handbook of Local Anesthesia, Malamed (Elsevier,Mosby)
Peterson’s Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Miloro, et al. (People’s Medical Publishing
House (PMPH))

Oral Diagnosis (Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology)

Cawson’s Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Odell (Elsevier)
Clinical Outline of Oral Pathology, Eversole (People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH))
Dental Radiography: Principles and Techniques, Iannucci and Howerton (Elsevier)
Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Dentistry, Stefanac and Nesbit (Elsevier)
Head, Neck, and Orofacial Infections: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Hupp and Ferneini, (Elsevier)
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Neville, et al. (Elsevier)
Principles of Rubin’s Pathology, Rubin and Reisner (Wolters Kluwer)
Rubin’s Pathology: Mechanisms of Human Disease, Strayer and Rubin (Wolters Kluwer)
White and Pharoah’s Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation, Mallya and Lam (Elsevier)

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Orthodontics
Contemporary Orthodontics, Proffit, et al. (Elsevier)
Handbook of Orthodontics, Cobourne and DiBiase (Elsevier)
Orthodontics: Current Principles and Techniques, Graber, et al. (Elsevier)

Patient Management (Dental Public Health and Occupational Safety, Behavioral Science)
“ADA Ethics Resources,” American Dental Association, available at [Link];
[Link]
ethics- resources
The ADA Practical Guide to Patients with Medical Conditions, Patton and Glick (Wiley-Blackwell)
Behavior Management in Dentistry for Children, Wright and Kupietzky (Wiley-Blackwell)
Communication Skills for Dental Health Care Providers, Young, et al. (Quintessence Publishing Co.
Inc.)
Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Obligations and Practical Applications, Ozar, et al.
(Georgetown University Press)
Dentistry, Dental Practice and the Community, Burt and Eklund (Elsevier/Saunders)
Geriatric Dentistry: Caring for Our Aging Population, Friedman (Wiley-Blackwell)
Jong’s Community Dental Health, Gluck and Morganstein (Mosby)
Little and Falace’s Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, Little, et al.
(Elsevier)
Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office, Malamed (Elsevier/Mosby)
Preventing Medical Emergencies: Use of the Medical History in Dental Practice, Pickett and
Gurenlian (Wolters Kluwer)
Primary Preventive Dentistry, Harris, et al. (Pearson)
Sedation: A Guide to Patient Management, Malamed (Elsevier)
Textbook of Geriatric Dentistry, Holm-Pedersen, et al. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Pediatric Dentistry
Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry, Nowak and Casamassimo (American Academy of Pediatric
Dentistry (AAPD))
McDonald and Avery’s Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent, Dean (Elsevier)
Pediatric Dentistry: Infancy through Adolescence, Nowak, et al. (Elsevier)
Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth, Andreasen, et al. (Wiley-Blackwell)

Periodontics
Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry, Lang and Lindhe, (Wiley-Blackwell)
Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation and Advanced Root Instrumentation, Gehrig, et al.
(Wolters Kluwer)
Newman and Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology, Newman, et al. (Elsevier)

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Pharmacology
ADA Dental Drug Handbook: A Quick Reference, Elkareh, et al. (American Dental Association
(ADA))
Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, Katzung, et al. (McGraw-Hill Education)
Clinical Pharmacology, Brown, et al. (Elsevier)
Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Brunton, et al. (McGraw Hill
Education)
Lexicomp Drug Information Handbook for Dentistry, Wynn, et al. (Wolters Kluwer)
Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference, Jeske (Elsevier)
Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry, Dowd, et al. (Mosby/Elsevier)

Prosthodontics
Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics, Rosenstiel, et al. (Elsevier)
Dental Implant Complications: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment, Froum (Wiley-Blackwell)
Dental Implant Prosthetics, Misch (Elsevier/Mosby)
Dental Implants: The Art and Science, Babbush, et al. (Saunders/Elsevier)
Esthetic Rehabilitation in Fixed Prosthodontics: Prosthetic Treatment: A Systematic Approach to
Esthetic, Biologic, and Functional Integration, Fradeani and Barducci, (Quintessence Publishing Co.
Inc.)
Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics, Shillingburg, et al. (Quintessence Publishing Co. Inc.)
Management of Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion, Okeson (Elsevier)
Manual of Temporomandibular Disorders, Wright (Wiley-Blackwell)
McCracken’s Removable Partial Prosthodontics, Carr and Brown (Elsevier)
Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous Patients: Complete Dentures and Implant-Supported
Prostheses, Zarb, et al. (Elsevier/Mosby)
Stewart’s Clinical Removable Partial Prosthodontics, Phoenix, et al. (Quintessence Publishing Co.
Inc.)
Textbook of Complete Dentures, Rahn, et al. (People’s Medical Publishing House (PMPH))