This document summarizes several classification systems for partially edentulous arches. It begins with an introduction and the need for classification. It then describes classification systems based on major connector material and various topographic classification systems proposed between 1920-1999. These include Cummer's (1920), Kennedy's (1925), Kennedy & Applegate (1960), Bailyn's (1928), Neurohr's (1939), Mauk's (1942), Wild's (1949), Godfrey's (1951), Beckett's (1953), Friedman (1953), Craddock's (1954), Austin & Lidge's (1957), Watt's (1957), Skinner's (1957), Avant's (1960), and others