Dental Assisting: A Comprehensive Approach

This new, full-color, comprehensive text is designed to prepare students for the DANB Certification Exam as well as the rigors of the dental office. Part of a dynamic learning system, Delmar's Dental Assisting: A Comprehensive Approach, includes practice software, workbook, exam review, videotapes, and instructor support materials. Other dental-related titles included in the system cover the areas of terminology, drugs, and office management. Used together, these materials will make your dental assisting education comprehensive and meaningful, providing you with skills, knowledge, principles, values, and understanding to excel in your chosen profession into the 21st century.

Features:

• Free practice software (3.5" Windows) includes bonus review exercises and activities with valuable feedback to reinforce text concepts.
• All chapters include chapter outline, objectives, and key terms allowing for more focused learning
• Key terms with page references are presented in color on their first appearance in the text
• Over 1500 full-color illustrations and photographs highlight concepts from simple to complex
• Over 140 step-by-step procedures with icons for major dental skills are included
• Tables and colorful information boxes provide additional tips and real-life applications
• In-text icons identify legal, safety, technology, global/cultural issues, and DANB exam components
• Student learning is enhanced with case studies, critical thinking questions, and review questions for each chapter
• Additional skills, such as dental dam placement, bleaching techniques, suture removal, and coronal polishing are covered in the Advanced Chairside Functions Chapter

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This preparation guide for Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) certification features 140 step-by-step procedures for major dental skills. Topics of the 31 chapters include dental charting, pharmacology, emergencies, pain and anxiety management, dental radiography, orthodontics, prosthodontics, restorative materials, and suture removal. The CD-ROM contains 1500 practice exercises. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Donna J. Phinney is the Program Director for the Dental Assisting Program at Spokane Community College. She has spent more than twenty years in the dental field as a dental assistant, a dental office consultant, an office manager and an educator. Donna Phinney holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Eastern Washington University and a Master's Degree in Education from Whitworth College. Ms. Phinney received her fellowship from the American Dental Assistants Association and is a certified dental assistant. She is active in the Washington State Dental Assisting Association, has served as a consultant for the American Dental Association for seventeen years and was a Commissioner for the American Dental Association, appointed by the American Dental Assistants Association.

Judy Halstead is a dental assisting instructor at Spokane Community College with more than twenty years experience teaching and more than ten years experience as a dental assistant. She was a program director for dental assisting in a private college and for a high school skills center. Ms. Halstead holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Eastern Washington University, is a certified dental assistant, and has an expanded functions certificate. Judy Halstead has been a member of local, state, and national Dental Assistant Associations for the past twenty-five years, has served as president of the Washington State Dental Assisting Association and has presented lectures and workshops at local, state, and regional dental conferences.