Dental Materials: Clinical Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Mar 3, 2015 - Medical - 384 pages

With Dental Materials: Clinical Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists, 3rd Edition, you will learn the most current methods of placing - or assisting in the placement - of dental materials, and how to instruct patients in their maintenance. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures show how to mix, use, and apply dental materials within the context of the patient's course of treatment. The multidisciplinary author team enhances this edition with new chapters on preventive and desensitizing materials, tooth whitening, and preventive and corrective oral appliances, with new clinical photos throughout. An Evolve website provides new chapter quizzes for classroom and board exam preparation!

  • An emphasis on application shows how dental materials are used in day-to-day clinical practice.
  • Step-by-step procedure boxes list detailed equipment/supplies and instructions on how to perform more than 30 key procedures, with icons indicating specific guidelines or precautions.
  • Chapter review questions help you assess your understanding of the content and prepare for classroom and board examinations.
  • Clinical tips and precautions are provided in summary boxes, focusing on the Do's and Don'ts in clinical practice and patient care.
  • Case-based discussions include scenarios that apply dental materials content to daily practice, encourage critical thinking, and reinforce proper patient education.
  • An Evolve companion website offers practice quizzes, interactive exercises, competency skill worksheets, and vocabulary practice.
  • NEW! Chapters on preventive and desensitizing materials, tooth whitening, and preventive and corrective oral appliances expand and reorganize this material to keep pace with dynamic areas.
  • NEW! Cutting-edge content reflects the latest advances in areas such as nano-glass ionomer cements, dental implants, and fluoride varnishes.
  • NEW! Clinical photographs throughout (more than 550 total) show dental materials being used and applied.
  • NEW online quizzes provide even more practice for test-taking confidence, and include rationales and page references for remediation.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Dental Materials
1
Chapter 2 Oral Environment and Patient Considerations
7
Chapter 3 Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dental Materials
19
Chapter 4 General Handling and Safety of Dental Materials in the Dental Office
27
Chapter 5 Principles of Bonding
45
Chapter 6 Composites Glass Ionomers and Compomers
64
Chapter 7 Preventive and Desensitizing Materials
96
Chapter 8 Teeth Whitening Materials and Procedures
115
Chapter 13 Abrasion Finishing and Polishing
203
Chapter 14 Dental Cement
220
Chapter 15 Impression Materials
243
Chapter 16 Gypsum and Wax Products
277
Chapter 17 Polymers for Prosthetic Dentistry
300
Chapter 18 Provisional Restorations
325
Chapter 19 Preventive and Corrective Oral Appliances
343
Appendix Answers to Review Questions
352

Chapter 9 Dental Ceramics
130
Chapter 10 Dental Amalgam
149
Chapter 11 Casting Metals Solders and Wrought Metal Alloys
169
Chapter 12 Dental Implants
183
Glossary
354
Index
360
Conversion Tables
371
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