Linda Bartolomucci Boyd

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

A Pocket Guide

Confidently recognize and manage more than 300 dental instruments with this portable, visually detailed resource. Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide, 4th Edition, pairs thorough descriptions with high-quality photographs and illustrations in a convenient, pocket-sized format to help you quickly and accurately identify dental tools. A unique flashcard-style presentation helps you assess your understanding, and the book's spiral-bound design gives you fast, efficient access to key information -- making Dental Instruments ideal for both studying and on-the-job reference.

 * UNIQUE! Flashcard format makes it easy to assess your knowledge of dental instruments and their uses.
 * More than 500 high-quality photographs and illustrations enhance your ability to quickly and accurately identify dental instruments.
 * Convenient pocket-sized, spiral-bound design helps you easily access key information at a glance.
 * Clear, consistent organization helps you master basic instruments before introducing more complicated tools.
 * Practice Notes and Sterilization boxes help you ensure compliance with common practice standards and state regulations.
 * Study tools on Evolve enhance your familiarity with dental instruments through assessment quizzes, interactive exercises, and new video clips.

 * All-new photographs of enamel cutting instruments provide both full views and close-ups to help you better distinguish among similar-looking instruments.
 * Additional "in-use" images throughout the text and new video clips on the companion Evolve website highlight the appropriate instruments for use in specific procedures.
 * Extensive updates familiarize you with the function and characteristics of new instruments, including the latest:
 * * Local anesthetic syringes and components
   * Evacuation devices
   * Dental handpieces
   * Composite restorative instruments
   * Dental radiography equipment

Dental Instruments

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Betty Ladley Finkbeiner

Charles Allan Finkbeiner

Learn the business skills you need to run a dental office! Not only is Practice Management for the Dental Team the most comprehensive dental practice management book on the market, it is also the only one that includes EagleSoft software exercises for a realistic office experience. This unique text provides step-by-step instructions for performing essential dental office skills, from managing patients to running the business. It covers all aspects of law and ethics, technology, communications, and business office systems. Spiral binding makes the book easy to use! All aspects of the business of managing a dental practice are covered, focusing on the functions generally performed by the administrative assistant but including information useful to dental assistants, dental hygienists, and other members of the dental team. A Patterson Dental EagleSoft CD-ROM (included with the workbook) provides you with valuable realistic practice experience with this widely used software program. Expert author Betty Ladley Finkbeiner is a leading authority in dental assisting education with many years of experience and many publications to her credit. Key terms are bolded and defined at the end of each chapter, putting new vocabulary at your fingertips. Summary tables and boxes make it easy to find key information. Practice Note boxes highlight and summarize important concepts. Chapter outlines and objectives introduce material and serve as checkpoints for reference or study. End-of-chapter learning activities include review questions and suggested activities for better comprehension of the material. Useful appendixes provide easy-to-find resources including a review of grammar to promote proper business communication, common medical abbreviations, and a listing of dental terminology. A NEW two-column format makes the book more compact and easier to read. A new focus on paperless technology and updated illustrations and photos of traditional paperwork keep you up to date with current practices. Expanded coverage of information security includes the latest on keeping communications secure within the office environment. Updated coverage of financial procedures includes information on electronic banking, record keeping, and tax forms. Evolve resources for students include online access to EagleSoft practice exercises that use actual screen shots to illustrate proper procedures and potential pitfalls, along with updates to content, working forms and templates, and crossword puzzles for vocabulary review. A workbook provides exercises using the practice management software, plus summaries of textbook content, learning objectives, practice questions and answers, critical thinking exercises, and Internet assignments. Sold separately.

Practice Management for the Dental Team

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Joen Iannucci

Laura Jansen Howerton

Principles and Techniques

Get through coverage of key dental radiography principles and complete technical instruction with this easy-to-use text.

Dental Radiography

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Doni L. Bird

Debbie S. Robinson

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Prepare for a successful career as a dental assistant! Modern Dental Assisting is the leading text in dental assisting -- the most trusted, the most comprehensive, and the most current. Using an easy-to-understand approach, this resource offers a complete foundation in the basic and advanced clinical skills you must master to achieve clinical competency. It describes dental assisting procedures with photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions. Along with the textbook, this complete learning package includes a companion Evolve website replete with learning exercises and games and a DVD with video clips of dental assisting procedures plus animations and review questions. Written by Doni Bird and Debbie Robinson, two well-known and well-respected dental assisting educators, this edition is also available as a Pageburst e-book.

 * Comprehensive coverage makes this your single, start-to-finish source for dental assisting training.
 * A highly approachable writing style presents the latest information and procedures in a way that makes it easy to understand and apply the material.
 * Concise chapters presented within short parts move from profession basics and sciences to infection control, safety, clinical dentistry, radiography, materials, specialty dental practice, and dental office administration.
 * Superb, full-color illustrations and photographs show procedures, equipment, and instruments.
 * Illustrated, step-by-step procedures show the skills that dental assistants must master, detailing for each the goal, equipment and supplies needed, chronological steps, and rationales.
 * Expanded Functions procedures boxes describe special dental assisting procedures allowed only in certain states.
 * Procedure icons alert you to issues relating to core procedures, e.g., that you should make notes in the patient''s record, don personal protective equipment, or watch for moisture contamination.
 * Key terms are accompanied by phonetic pronunciations, highlighted within the text, and defined in boxes on the same or facing page.
 * Critical thinking questions end each chapter with mini-case scenarios and application-style questions.
 * Learning and performance outcomes in each chapter set goals for what you will accomplish and also serve as checkpoints for comprehension, skills mastery, and study tools for exam preparation.
 * Summary tables and boxes make it easy to review key concepts and procedures.
 * Recall boxes appear after sections of text and include questions to ensure that you understand the material.
 * CDC boxes cite the latest recommendations for infection control and summarize regulations.
 * Eye to the Future boxes introduce cutting-edge research, future trends, and topics.
 * Legal and Ethical Implications boxes focus on the behaviors that you will need to practice to protect yourself, your patients, and the practice for which you work.
 * Patient Education boxes summarize content within the context of patient education take-away points.
 * A glossary provides a quick and handy way to look up terminology, with chapter references indicating where terms are introduced and discussed within chapters.
 * Interactive Dental Office program on the companion Evolve website provides 25 case studies with integrated radiographic mounting and dental charting exercises to help you problem-solve your way through a wide variety of dental conditions and procedures; games help you review and study in the areas of pathology, radiation safety, business office activities, workplace safety, oral anatomy, and dental instruments.
 * Canadian Content Corner on the Evolve site highlights Canadian-specific dental information.
 * A student workbook corresponds to the textbook and offers review and practice of essential tasks that dental assistants perform every day, plus competency skill sheets and detachable flashcards for on-the-go review. Sold separately.

 * NEW content includes areas such as digital imaging, implant dentistry, sleep dentistry, dental materials, the electronic patient record, HIPAA laws and implications, stem cell research, and caries prevention.
 * Expanded information about working with special needs and medically compromised patients includes eating disorders, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
 * NEW procedures include taking a patient''s oximetry and ECG, applying fluoride varnish, using the caries detection device, and performing extraoral and intraoral photography, in addition to several new radiographic procedures.
 * NEW photos show current products and equipment.
 * Procedure exercises on Evolve offer practice in correctly ordering the steps in each procedure.
 * A companion DVD features more than 70 video clips of dental assisting procedures plus animations and review questions, including two new clips: Assisting in a Class II Amalgam Restoration, and Positioning the High-Volume Evacuator During a Procedure.
 * Online practice CDA examination mimics the style of the CDA exam with 250 multiple-choice questions with answers, rationales, and chapter references to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and prepare for the exam.

Modern Dental Assisting

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