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How can neuroimaging contribute to dental practice? Intuitively, it is hard to imagine that the knowledge of ‘brain activation’ would contribute anything for dentists to complete a Class II cavity restoration. However, the functional perspective of the brain–stomatognathic connection (Figure 1.1) highlights the association between the brain, mental functions and oral functions. Therefore, understanding the brain is the key to understanding the individual variation in oral functions and feeding and oral healthcare behaviour. In the following sections, we elaborate this association by examples of dental neuroimaging studies. Firstly, we discuss the contribution of neuroimaging to oral neuroscience. Secondly, we discuss the contribution of neuroimaging to the clinical disciplines of dentistry.