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. Written by Doni Bird and Debbie Robinson, two well-known and well-respected dental assisting educators.
Comprehensive coverage
takes students through a dental assisting program from start to finish.
A highly approachable writing style
presents the latest information and procedures in a way that ensures students can easily grasp and learn to 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 students to issues relating to core procedures, e.g., that they 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 students 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 students 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 dental assistants will need to practice to protect themselves, their patients, and the practices for which they 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.
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