Item #142559 Dental-Arch Morphology of Australian Aborigines. A Metric Study of Arch Size and Shape. Peter Chung Kwong CHENG.
Dental-Arch Morphology of Australian Aborigines. A Metric Study of Arch Size and Shape

Dental-Arch Morphology of Australian Aborigines. A Metric Study of Arch Size and Shape

Adelaide, Department of Restorative Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, 1972.

Quarto, xiii, 179 pages (rectos only) with 25 tables and 33 figures (10 of which are mounted original gelatin silver photographs).

Binder's cloth a little flecked; an excellent copy.

A thesis 'submitted for the Degree of Master of Dental Surgery' at the University of Adelaide. 'The material available for study consisted of dental casts obtained by others in a longitudinal study of a group of Australian Aborigines living under settlement conditions at Yuendumu, 185 miles north-west of Alice Springs' (page 38).

Provenance: Brian Crisp, an Adelaide orthodontist and teacher, with his initialled inscription at the head of a loosely inserted 'Course of Study' outline for the author (5 pages, processed typescript). Crisp writes: 'Peter Chung was the first post-graduate student in Orthodontics at Adelaide University Dental School and I was one of his tutors'.

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