The cornerstone text of almost every dental hygienist's library is now in its thoroughly updated Tenth Edition. Written in a straightforward, concise outline format, this text equips students and practitioners with the clinical and educational skills needed for successful practice. Features includes full-color artwork and photographs, case-based exercises, procedure boxes, and ethics boxes. The Tenth Edition presents the latest technical advances and research findings and includes a new chapter on teeth whitening, plus new sections on cultural competence, detailed home visit, street drugs, and indices for early childhood caries and root caries.
A bound-in CD-ROM includes clinical video clips, an audio pronunciation glossary, and board case style questions with rationales.
Key Features
- Robust instructor and student ancillaries packages.
- "Outline and topic" format ensures information is easy to follow.
- Full-color artwork and photographs.
- Case-based exercises provide practical guidance.
- Text boxes including Key Word, Procedure, Everyday Ethics, and Factors to Teach the Patient, reinforce covered concepts.
- Appendices: prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms; ADHA and CDHA Codes of Ethics; guidelines for infection control in dental healthcare settings; and average measurements of human teeth.
New to this edition
- New chapter on teeth whitening provides the latest advances on this procedure.
- New technical advances and research findings.
- New sections on cultural competence, detailed home visit, street drugs and indices for early childhood caries and root caries.
Contents
Section I: Orientation to Clinical Dental Hygiene Practice
- Chapter 1: The Professional Dental Hygienist
Section II: Preparation for Dental Hygiene Practice
- Chapter 2: Infection Control: Transmissible Diseases
- Chapter 3: Exposure Control: Barriers for Patient and Clinician
- Chapter 4: Infection Control: Clinical Procedures
Section III: Assessment
- Chapter 6: Documentation
- Chapter 7: Personal, Dental, and Medical Histories
Part IV: Dental Hygiene Diagnosis and Care Planning
- Chapter 21: Planning for Dental Hygiene Care
- Chapter 22: The Dental Hygiene Care Plan
Part V: Prevention
- Chapter 23: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Chapter 24: Protocols for Prevention and Control of Dental Caries
- Chapter 25: Oral Infection Control: Toothbrushes and Toothbrushing
Part VI: Treatment
- Chapter 36: Instruments and Principles for Instrumentation
- Chapter 37: Nonsurgical Periodontal Instrumentation
- Chapter 38: Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy: Supplemental Care Procedures
- Chapter 39: Acute Periodontal Conditions
- Chapter 40: Sutures and dressings
- Chapter 41: Dentin Hypersensitivity
- Chapter 42: Extrinsic Stain Removal
- Chapter 43: Tooth Whitening
Part VII: Evaluation and Maintenance
Part VIII: Patients With Special Needs
- Chapter 45: The Pregnant Patient
- Chapter 46: Pediatric Oral Health Care: Infancy Through Age 5
- Chapter 47: The Patient with a Cleft Lip and/or Palate
- Chapter 48: Preadolescent to Postmenopausal Patients
- Chapter 49: The Elderly Patient
- Chapter 50: The Edentulous Patient
- Chapter 51: The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Patient
- Chapter 52: The Patient with Cancer
- Chapter 53: Care of Patients with Disabilities
- Chapter 54: The Patient Who is Homebound or Bedridden
- Chapter 55: The Patient with a Physical Impairment
- Chapter 56: The Patient with a Sensory Disability
- Chapter 57: Family Abuse and Neglect
- Chapter 58: The Patient with a Seizure Disorder
- Chapter 59: The Patient with Mental Disability
- Chapter 60: The Patient with a Psychiatric Disorder
- Chapter 61: The Patient with a Substance-Related Disorder
- Chapter 62: The Patient with a Respiratory Disease
- Chapter 63: The Patient with a Cardiovascular Disease
- Chapter 64: The Patient with a Blood Disorder
- Chapter 65: The Patient with Diabetes Mellitus
- Chapter 66: Emergency Care
Appendices
- Appendix I. American Dental Hygienists' Association Code of Ethics for Dental Hygienists
- Appendix II. Canadian Dental Hygienists' Association Code of Ethics
- Appendix III. The International Federation of Dental Hygienists' Code of Ethics
- Appendix IV. Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings--2003
- Appendix V. Average Measurements of Human Teeth
Index
Product Details
- Hardcover: 1216 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Tenth edition (February 29, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781763223
- ISBN-13: 978-0781763226
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.8 inches
List Price: $97.95