Dental Hygiene: Applications to Clinical Practice

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• Application to Clinical Practice shows you how to apply what you’re learning to clinical practice.


• Emerging Technologies highlights new and emerging technologies used in practice.


• Evidence-Based Practice, discussed in an entire chapter as well as in cases throughout the book, emphasizes the importance of finding, validating, and applying the best available evidence from the literature.


• Spotlight on Public Health presents information on access-to-care issues and what dental hygienists are doing to improve access to care.


• Teamwork discusses the interdisciplinary collaboration essential to successful oral health care and opportunities for alliances with other oral health professionals, other health professionals, and the community.


• Professionalism focuses on the wide range of issues, including ethics, appearance, professional organization involvement, and attitude that comprise professionalism and illustrates how they apply to the career of dental hygiene.


• Procedures, written in a step-by-step format with rationales, help you understand how and why a step should be performed.


• Case Studies with Review Questions let students apply chapter content to clinical situations.


• Active Learning Exercises meet the needs of different learning styles to help students develop their critical-thinking skills.

• Interactive Ebook is your Dental Hygiene text in an easy-to-use, online format.


• Interactive Audio Case Studies feature short audio scenarios followed by multiple-choice questions that ask students to make critical decisions.


• Hot Spot Anatomy& Equipment Exercises focus on identifying must-know anatomy and equipment.


• Communication Exercises ask students to formulate the proper communication strategy for a variety of real-life situations.


• Flash Cards for each lesson help students master equipment and terminology.


• Practice Tests assess how well students have mastered each lesson.


• Pronunciation Guide/Glossary Guide includes pronunciations and short definitions for the key words in each chapter.


• Fill-in Procedure Exercises present all of the steps in a procedure with one key step missing.