Dental Materials: A Pocket Guide

Dental Materials: A Pocket Guide

<p>Use this quick guide to learn the essentials of dental materials! <b>Dental Materials: A Pocket Guide </b>describes how to recognize, select, and mix the most widely used materials in modern dentistry. A flip-book format covers each dental material in two pages, with the first page showing photos of the material before and after mixing, and the facing page including step-by-step mixing and use instructions. This compact, spiral-bound guide is ideal for on-the-go study or chairside reference.</p><ul><b><li>Flip-book style</b> is ideal for quick identification and quizzing, devoting two pages to each dental material ― one with photos, and the other featuring its description ― so you can choose to view only the image, only the description, or both.</li><li><b>Hundreds of high-quality photographs</b> help you recognize, identify, and select dental materials, showing materials in three ways: 1) as they appear within manufacturer packaging, 2) as they appear in their unmixed forms, and 3) as they appear at the completion of mixing.</li><li><b>Need-to-know information</b> includes the form in which the dental material is supplied, its composition, the armamentarium for use, and step-by-step directions on how to mix and use the material. </li><li><b>Helpful hints or special considerations</b> highlight specific terms, issues, properties, or clinical uses of the materials.</li><li><b>Convenient, easy-to-follow organization</b> groups chapters into the main categories of materials including restorative materials, impression materials, dental waxes, bonding agents, whitening agents, and others.</li><li><b>Compact, pocket size with spiral binding</b> is ideal for chairside use or on-the-go study. </li><li><b><i>Equipment Commonly Used to Manipulate Materials</i> chapter</b> sets up a foundation of essential knowledge by describing the equipment needed for work in dental materials.</li><li><b><i>Historical Dental Materials</i> chapter</b> covers older materials that may still have a place within many dental offices. </li><li><b>Quick-reference appendices</b> make it easier to look up metric conversion tables along with photos of commonly used brand-name products for each type of material.</li> </ul>