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cover image - Essentials of Dental Assisting - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,5th Edition
ISBN: 9781437704204
Copyright: 2013
Page Count: 520
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $72.95
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Essentials of Dental Assisting - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Debbie S. Robinson, CDA, MS and Doni L. Bird, CDA, RDA, RDH, MA

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Essentials of Dental Assisting - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,5th Edition
ISBN: 9781437704204
Copyright: 2013
Page Count: 520
Imprint: Saunders
List Price: $72.95
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Fully updated to include the latest procedures and trends, this practical resource focuses on the core clinical skills and knowledge you need to become a practicing dental assistant. The concise, full-color text has been specifically designed and written to help you easily grasp important DA information. And step-by-step procedures, application exercises, and a wealth of pedagogical aids ensure that you master all the necessary skills.

  • Key Features

    • Focus on Clinical Dental Assisting provides essential information on the core skills and procedures needed to become a practicing dental assistant.

    • Approachable writing style ensures that you have a full understanding of text content.

    • Easy-to-follow organization offers 29 succinct chapters that move from profession basics and sciences to infection control, chair-side treatment foundations, and patient care in general and specific dentistry.

    • Step-by-step procedures of skills dental assistants must master feature a consistent format that includes a goal, equipment, chronological steps, and rationales.

    • Procedure icons clearly indicate what issues/things must be identified when performing various core procedures.

    • Ethical implications are featured at the end of each chapter’s narrative to touch on important ethical considerations related to the chapter material.

  • New to This Edition

    • NEW! Content incorporates additional information on dynamic areas such as HIPAA laws and implications, digital imaging, dental materials, and caries prevention.

    • NEW! Expanded and updated artwork focuses on newer products, materials, and equipment to remain current with technological advances in the modern dental office.

    • NEW! Online student exercises on Evolve include crossword puzzles, and exercises on labeling, procedure-ordering, and instrument identification.

  • Contents

    PART 1: The Profession

    1. Introduction to Dental Assisting

    2. Professional and Legal Aspects of Dental Assisting

      3. PART 2: The Sciences

    3. Anatomy and Physiology

    4. Dental Anatomy

      5. PART 3: Infection Prevention and Hazardous Materials

    5. Disease Transmission

    6. Infection Control and Management of Hazardous Materials

    7. Surface Disinfection and Treatment Room Preparation

    8. Instrument Processing

      9. PART 4: Dental Treatment

    9. Clinical Dentistry

    10. Moisture Control

      11. PART 5: Patient Care

    11. The Dental Patient

    12. The Dental Examination

    13. Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office

    14. Pain and Anxiety Control

      15. PART 6: Dental Imaging

    15. Radiation Safety and Production of X-Rays

    16. Oral Radiography

      17. PART 7: Preventive Dentistry

    17. Preventive Care

    18. Coronal Polishing and Dental Sealants

      19. PART 8: Restorative Dentistry

    19. Instruments, Handpieces, and Accessories

    20. Restorative Materials

    21. Restorative Procedures

    22. Impression Materials and Laboratory Procedures

    23. Prosthodontics

      24. PART 9: Specialized Dentistry

    24. Periodontics

    25. Endodontics

    26. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

    27. Pediatric Dentistry

    28. Orthodontics

      29. PART 10: Preparation for Employment

    29. The Job Search

    Glossary

    Index

  • Authors

    Debbie S. Robinson, CDA, MS, Former Research Associate, Department of Nutrition Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Doni L. Bird, CDA, RDA, RDH, MA, Former Director, Dental Education Programs, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California; Former Director, Dental Assisting Program University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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