Medical Books, Medical Textbook Online

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Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques – 032302839X, Mosby’s Nursing Skills CD-ROM Student Version 2.0 – 032304137X

Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference 2005

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The Illustrated Handbook of Clinical Dentistry is a valuable reference for all dental professionals. This handbook offers a concise review of basic clinical principles and procedures that are encountered on a daily basis. A perfect resource when transitioning into clinical practice, or as a refresher for the seasoned dental professional.

Lexi-Comp’s Illustrated Handbook of Clinical Dentistry

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This comprehensive study manual is designed to prepare students for the Dental Assisting National Board Examination by emulating the style and format of the exam. The text features in-depth practice, including test-taking tips, to help students prepare for their examination and achieve higher scores. All major test topics are covered.

Dental Assisting Test Preparation

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Author is an Attorney at Law, Windham, ME. Text for dental hygienists and assistants who are ready to enter practice. Provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the legal, ethical and management dilemmas that confront members of the dental healthcare team. Includes case studies, questions following the case studies, author’s responses, and more. Softcover.

Legal And Ethical Considerations For Dental Hygienists And Assistants

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Dental front office administration is written to encompass the study of dental administrative and billing procedures from the time a patient walks into the office to the moment they walk out, as well as the final billing and reconciliation of the patient’s account.  The straightforward easy-to-understand writing style from ICDC authors, presents information clearly and concisely. Patient names, exercises and examples in this training material have been designed to incorporate a light-hearted humorous context,  found to improve the ability to comprehend and retain information.  

Guide to Dental Front Office Administration

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Designed to meet the needs of Dental Materials courses, Delmar Learning’s Guide to Dental Materials for the Dental Assistant is professionally written by a credentialed, career dental assistant and dental assisting educator. This resource meets or exceeds DANB requirements to prepare for the dental materials portion of the national certification test. “Practice Makes Perfect Procedures” skill sheets provide students with the opportunity to put into practice what they have learned from reading the chapters. Assessment sheets allow the instructor to assess the learner’s mastery of the skills covered in the chapters. This book also includes critical thinking questions as well as post-test questions so learner’s can further test their comprehension of the material.

Materials and Procedures for Today?s Dental Assistant

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Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Translational Guide for Dental Professionals

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Fundamental principles of material science are closely integrated with everyday dental practice in the newly revised edition of this classic textbook. Written in a practical, straightforward manner with the student practitioner in mind, this book presents the essential knowledge of material structure and properties. A glossary of terms and discussion questions are included with each chapter to help students focus on the concepts they will need as practicing dentists. Promoting problem-based learning through the use of real-life clinical scenarios, the authors show how to apply the framework of material science to restorative treatment plans. This didactic combination will enable students, technicians, and clinicians not only to select appropriate materials for various clinical situations, but to handle them correctly for optimum clinical performance.

Dental Materials and Their Selection

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Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist focuses on the role of the public health professional in improving the oral health of people throughout the community. This new edition explores the advances made in the field and in national legislature since the first edition published.

Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist

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Ensure your patients’ health and safety! Practical guidance helps you determine the severity and stability of common medical disorders in the dental office, so you’ll always know how to proceed to provide the best possible care and avoid complications. Concise, clinically focused coverage details the basic disease process for each condition, along with the incidence and prevalence, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, laboratory findings, currently accepted medical therapies, and recommendations for specific dental management.

• Reference lists provide places where the reader can go to obtain more detailed information on the topics discussed in the chapter.
• Dental Management Summary Table synthesizes important factors for consideration in the dental management of medically compromised patients.
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health Care Settings appendix provides certified standards for infection control.
• Therapeutic Management of Common Oral Lesions appendix provides quick reference for lesions commonly encountered in dental practice.
• Drug Interactions of Significance to Dentistry appendix alerts practitioners to potential drug interactions.

• For the first time, the table of contents will be divided into parts by the category of medical condition, making it faster and easier for the dental professional to search by condition.
• Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis, Chapter 2, incorporates the latest American Heart Association guidelines to help prevent endocarditis.
• Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation, Chapter 8, discusses the systemic and oral effects of smoking and includes suggestions for encouraging smoker cessation.
• Tuberculosis, Chapter 9, clearly defines related oral complications and adverse drug effects of the disease and identifies methods for management in dental patients.
• Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders, Chapter 10, details obstructive sleep apnea and treatment options including oral appliances and surgical procedures.
• Rheumatologic and Connective Tissue Disorders, Chapter 21, discusses treatment options for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Lyme Disease, and Sjögren’s Syndrome.
• Chapters 23 and 24 highlight the oral complications of both red and white blood cell disorders.
• Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders, Chapters 28 and 29, provide guidelines for managing conditions like depression, eating disorders, anxiety, and schizophrenia, and indicate proper drugs for treatment.
• Alternative Drugs Appendix provides treatment options from the growing areas of alternative and complementary medicine.

Little and Falace’s Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient