Modern Dental Assisting

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.