Pearson's Comprehensive Dental Assisting

Pearson's Comprehensive Dental Assisting
Author: Lori Tyler
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780131744196

Pearson's Comprehensive Dental Assisting was developed with the needs of both the instructor and student in mind. The information is presented in an extremely comprehensive manner by using a step-by-step, competency based approach that covers all the facets of the dental assisting profession. Written by authors who have worked in the dentistry field, this book places the focus on learning both technical and people skills to help ensure success as a student and dental assistant. Dental Assistants

Prentice Hall Health Complete Review of Dental Assisting

Prentice Hall Health Complete Review of Dental Assisting
Author: Emily Andujo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Accompanying CD-ROM has companion website with chapters on chairside assisting, dental radiology, and infection control, each with an introduction, a specialty practice test, links, and a glossary.

Dental Health Education

Dental Health Education
Author: Lori Gagliardi
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007
Genre: Dental health education
ISBN:

The only book combining dental health information and lesson plans for the elementary classroom, this book addresses the role of the dental health educator and the needs of children. The book includes 10 lesson plans, visual aids, and tips on integrating dental health into the academic curriculum and the community. This book is a must for anyone teaching oral health to grade school children. Elementary school teachers, dental hygienists, school nurses.

Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens

Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens
Author: National Safety Council
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780073016740

This 58-page full-color manual is designed to complement the 2 to 2.5 hour National Safety Council Blood and Airborne Pathogen course. It focuses on teaching people how to protect themselves and others from blood and airborne pathogens and what to do if there is an exposure. Specific pathogens covered include Hepatitis viruses, HIV, and Tuberculosis. Also covered are OSHA standards and expectations, the concept of universal precautions and personal protective equipment. McGraw-Hill Public Safety Website

Hybridization of Dental Hard Tissues

Hybridization of Dental Hard Tissues
Author: Nobuo Nakabayashi
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

1. Evolution of Dentin-Resin Bonding. -- 2. Properties of Dentin. -- 3. Acidic Conditioning and Hybridization of Substrates. -- 4. Characterization of the Hybrid Layer. -- 5. The Quality of the Hybridized Dentin. -- 6. Clinical Applications of Hybrid Layer Formation.

Four-handed Dentistry

Four-handed Dentistry
Author: Betty Ladley Finkbeiner
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This review of sit-down, four-handed dentistry is an ideal how-to reference manual for the entire dental health team. Extensively illustrated with step-by-step procedure boxes and "how to" pictures, it outlines the implementation of efficient procedures for a productive stress free clinical environment--i.e., how to practice efficiently and how to select equipment that is ergonomically sound--that will improve productivity and reduce strain. Coverage begins with an overview of the principles of four-handed dentistry and motion economy, moves on to treatment room design, types of delivery systems, and basic equipment selection, and then details the basic techniques used to promote ergonomic concepts during routine dental treatment, such as seating the patient and operating team, instrument transfer, oral evacuation. For dentists, dental students, dental assistants, or dental hygienists.

Ethics, Jurisprudence, and Practice Management in Dental Hygiene

Ethics, Jurisprudence, and Practice Management in Dental Hygiene
Author: Vickie J. Kimbrough
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Textbook provides a current overview of the field and features a detailed discussion of common ethical situations and practice management. Focuses on technology in the workplace. Chapter activities and exercises are included.

Dental Hygiene Process

Dental Hygiene Process
Author: Laura Mueller-Joseph
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This text provides a comprehensive look at the dental hygiene process and encourages the use of critical thinking. Quality, individualized client care developed through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation are emphasized.