Modern Dental Assisting

Modern Dental Assisting

• Software CD

<p>Prepare for a successful career as a dental assistant<i>! </i><b>Modern Dental Assisting</b> is <i>the</i> 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. </p><ul><li><b>Comprehensive coverage</b> makes this your single, start-to-finish source for dental assisting training. </li><li><b>A highly approachable writing style</b> presents the latest information and procedures in a way that makes it easy to understand and apply the material.</li><li><b>Concise chapters presented within short parts</b> move from profession basics and sciences to infection control, safety, clinical dentistry, radiography, materials, specialty dental practice, and dental office administration. </li><li><b>Superb, full-color illustrations and photographs</b> show procedures, equipment, and instruments.</li><li><b>Illustrated, step-by-step procedures</b> show the skills that dental assistants must master, detailing for each the goal, equipment and supplies needed, chronological steps, and rationales.</li><li><b><i>Expanded Functions</i> procedures boxes</b> describe special dental assisting procedures allowed only in certain states.</li><li><b>Procedure icons</b> 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.</li><li><b>Key terms</b> are accompanied by phonetic pronunciations, highlighted within the text, and defined in boxes on the same or facing page.</li><li><b>Critical thinking questions</b> end each chapter with mini-case scenarios and application-style questions. </li><li><b>Learning and performance outcomes</b> 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.</li><li><b>Summary tables and boxes</b> make it easy to review key concepts and procedures. </li><li><b><i>Recall</i> boxes</b> appear after sections of text and include questions to ensure that you understand the material.</li><li><b>CDC boxes</b> cite the latest recommendations for infection control and summarize regulations.</li><li><b><i>Eye to the Future</i> boxes</b> introduce cutting-edge research, future trends, and topics.</li><li><b><i>Legal and Ethical Implications</i> boxes</b> focus on the behaviors that you will need to practice to protect yourself, your patients, and the practice for which you work.</li><li><b><i>Patient Education</i> boxes</b> summarize content within the context of patient education take-away points.</li><li><b>A glossary</b> provides a quick and handy way to look up terminology, with chapter references indicating where terms are introduced and discussed within chapters.</li><li><b>Interactive Dental Office program on the companion Evolve website</b> 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.</li><li><b><i>Canadian Content Corner</i></b> on the Evolve site highlights Canadian-specific dental information.</li><li><b>A student workbook</b> 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. <i>Sold separately. </i></li></ul><ul><li><b>NEW content</b> 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.</li><li><b>Expanded information about working with special needs and medically compromised patients</b> includes eating disorders, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder.</li><li><b>NEW procedures</b> 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.</li><li><b>NEW photos</b> show current products and equipment.</li><li><b>Procedure exercises on Evolve</b> offer practice in correctly ordering the steps in each procedure.</li><li><b>A companion DVD</b> features more than 70 video clips of dental assisting procedures plus animations and review questions, including two new clips: <i>Assisting in a Class II Amalgam Restoration, </i>and<i> Positioning the High-Volume Evacuator During a Procedure</i>.</li><li><b>Online practice CDA examination</b> 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. </li> </ul>