Dental Instruments. a Pocket Guide to Identification

Description

Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide to Identification is a pocket guide for dental assisting students for quick reference and review of dental instruments, their uses, their placement on a tray, and their different varieties. This pocket guide is used while in clinical courses, during clinical internships, as a review companion to clinical courses, and is a resource for students to take with them to their first job. Unique to this title is the companion student resources CD-ROM in the back of the book, which provides the student with an interactive learning experience. The CD-ROM includes an image bank, interactive tray set-ups, crossword puzzles, student quizzes, and more games and activities for self-study. Dental assisting faculty has the challenge of simulating a clinical environment and making a student comfortable and confident before they are with a patient in a real clinical setting. This text with the companion CD-ROM does just that.

Features

• NEW: Full color photographs and design
• NEW: A more comprehensive look, with new units of study for instruments used in:
  • Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
  • The Dental Laboratory
  • Dental Radiography
  • Infection Control
• NEW: This Second Edition will be your student's go-to reference, with enhanced with updated technology, related equipment, tray set-ups for numerous dental procedures, and in-use photos and diagrams.
• Includes Tray Set-Up for each instrument, which gives students practical information of on which tray an instrument is placed
• Varieties of each instrument, which introduces students to the different varieties that exist for an instrument that they will encounter
• Flashcard style format, which can be used in the classroom and for independent study as the student masters identification of the instruments used in all areas of dentistry

Table of Contents

1: Exam and Basic Hand Instruments
2: Diagnostic and Treatment Planning
3: Hand Instruments - Cavity Preparation
4: Restorative Instruments
5: Dental Dam Instruments
6: Dental Handpieces
7: Dental Burs and Rotary Instruments
8: Impression Instruments and Equipment
9: Laboratory Instruments and Equipment
10: Crown and Bridge Instruments
11: Oral and Maxillofacial Instruments
12: Endodontic Instruments
13: Hygiene and Periodontal Instruments
14: Orthodontic Instruments
15: Radiographic Instruments and Equipment
16: Infection Control Instruments and Equipment

Author Bio

Melanie Mitchell CDA, BGS
Dental Assistant Program, Wichita Area Technical College, Wichita, KS