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Doni L. Bird

Debbie S. Robinson

Jeffrey R. Smith

Saunders

User-friendly and easy to understand, Torres and Ehrlich Modern Dental Assisting, 9th Edition has everything you need to prepare for a career in dental assisting. This complete learning package includes the textbook, Evolve website, a multimedia procedures DVD with video clips and animations, and an interactive dental office CD that includes updated case studies and interactive review exercises. This book also satisfies ADA accreditation guidelines and the CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings.
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<li>Procedures walk you through hands-on laboratory skills and include illustrations, equipment and supplies needed, and the rationale behind each step to help you master the skills.</li>
<li>Essential for your practice as a dental assistant, CDC boxes familiarize you with the latest CDC guidelines and illustrate how to use them in the clinical setting.</li>
<li>Review Exercises on Evolve provide additional opportunity for reviewing the topics in the book.</li>
<li>Shorter chapters offer a more focused discussion of each topic and help you find specific information easily.</li>
<li>Learn the proper way to sit, reach, stretch, and position your hands and wrists in the Ergonomics chapter.</li>
<li>Dental Caries chapter discusses the prevention and intervention of caries.</li>
<li>Interactive Charting Exercises on the CD and written exercises in the workbook provide practice in this critical dental assisting skill.</li>
<li>Critical Thinking questions and scenarios test your problem solving skills and provide an opportunity for classroom discussion.</li>
<li>Patient Education boxes at the end of select chapters offer tips and strategies to help you learn to interact and share information with patients.</li>
<li>Be aware of ethical and legal situations with Legal and Ethical Implications boxes to protect yourself and your patients.</li>
<li>Explore the latest cutting-edge research, trends, and hot topics that relate to chapter content with Eye to the Future boxes.</li>
<li>Student Workbook also available</li>
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<li>Multimedia Procedures DVD packaged with the text includes 60 procedural video clips with optional review questions at the end of each clip to help you visualize difficult concepts and test your knowledge.</li>
<li>A variety of case studies and review on the Interactive Dental Office CD packaged with the text, allow you to apply your knowledge and sharpen your clinical and practice management skills.</li>
<li>Evolve website includes Canadian content tailored to Canada’s specific nutrition guidelines and privacy regulations.</li>
<li>Electronic Resources sections list available resources for each chapter on Evolve, the CD-ROM, and the DVD to tie together the text and electronic content.</li>
<li>Added emphasis on Expanded Functions helps you understand the skills you need to become proficient in complex procedures.</li>
<li>Updated photos reflect the modern dental assisting environment in which you will practice practice.</li>
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Torres and Ehrlich Modern Dental Assisting (Torres & Ehrlich's Modern Dental Assisting)

Medical Books

Hazel O. Torres

Ann Ehrlich

Dentistry

Prepare for a successful career as a dental assistant! Modern Dental Assisting is the leading text in dental assisting -- the most trusted, the most comprehensive, and the most current. Using an easy-to-understand approach, this resource offers a complete foundation in the basic and advanced clinical skills you must master to achieve clinical competency. It describes dental assisting procedures with photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions. Along with the textbook, this complete learning package includes a companion Evolve website replete with learning exercises and games and a DVD with video clips of dental assisting procedures plus animations and review questions. Written by Doni Bird and Debbie Robinson, two well-known and well-respected dental assisting educators, this edition is also available as a Pageburst e-book. 
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Comprehensive coverage makes this your single, start-to-finish source for dental assisting training. </li>
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A highly approachable writing style presents the latest information and procedures in a way that makes it easy to understand and apply the material.</li>
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Concise chapters presented within short parts move from profession basics and sciences to infection control, safety, clinical dentistry, radiography, materials, specialty dental practice, and dental office administration. </li>
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Superb, full-color illustrations and photographs show procedures, equipment, and instruments.</li>
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Illustrated, step-by-step procedures show the skills that dental assistants must master, detailing for each the goal, equipment and supplies needed, chronological steps, and rationales.</li>
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Expanded Functions procedures boxes describe special dental assisting procedures allowed only in certain states.</li>
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Procedure icons alert you to issues relating to core procedures, e.g., that you should make notes in the patient's record, don personal protective equipment, or watch for moisture contamination.</li>
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Key terms are accompanied by phonetic pronunciations, highlighted within the text, and defined in boxes on the same or facing page.</li>
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Critical thinking questions end each chapter with mini-case scenarios and application-style questions. </li>
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Learning and performance outcomes in each chapter set goals for what you will accomplish and also serve as checkpoints for comprehension, skills mastery, and study tools for exam preparation.</li>
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Summary tables and boxes make it easy to review key concepts and procedures. </li>
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Recall boxes appear after sections of text and include questions to ensure that you understand the material.</li>
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CDC boxes cite the latest recommendations for infection control and summarize regulations.</li>
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Eye to the Future boxes introduce cutting-edge research, future trends, and topics.</li>
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Legal and Ethical Implications boxes focus on the behaviors that you will need to practice to protect yourself, your patients, and the practice for which you work.</li>
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Patient Education boxes summarize content within the context of patient education take-away points.</li>
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A glossary provides a quick and handy way to look up terminology, with chapter references indicating where terms are introduced and discussed within chapters.</li>
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Interactive Dental Office program on the companion Evolve website provides 25 case studies with integrated radiographic mounting and dental charting exercises to help you problem-solve your way through a wide variety of dental conditions and procedures; games help you review and study in the areas of pathology, radiation safety, business office activities, workplace safety, oral anatomy, and dental instruments.</li>
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Canadian Content Corner on the Evolve site highlights Canadian-specific dental information.</li>
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A student workbook corresponds to the textbook and offers review and practice of essential tasks that dental assistants perform every day, plus competency skill sheets and detachable flashcards for on-the-go review. Sold separately. 
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NEW content includes areas such as digital imaging, implant dentistry, sleep dentistry, dental materials, the electronic patient record, HIPAA laws and implications, stem cell research, and caries prevention.</li>
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Expanded information about working with special needs and medically compromised patients includes eating disorders, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder.</li>
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NEW procedures include taking a patient's oximetry and ECG, applying fluoride varnish, using the caries detection device, and performing extraoral and intraoral photography, in addition to several new radiographic procedures.</li>
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NEW photos show current products and equipment.</li>
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Procedure exercises on Evolve offer practice in correctly ordering the steps in each procedure.</li>
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A companion DVD features more than 70 video clips of dental assisting procedures plus animations and review questions, including two new clips: Assisting in a Class II Amalgam Restoration, and Positioning the High-Volume Evacuator During a Procedure.</li>
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Online practice CDA examination mimics the style of the CDA exam with 250 multiple-choice questions with answers, rationales, and chapter references to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and prepare for the exam. </li> </ul>

Modern Dental Assisting

Easy to understand and simple to use, Student Workbook for Modern Dental Assisting, 10th Edition, provides the best review and practice available in workbook form for mastering core dental assisting skills. Doni Bird and Debbie Robinson offer chapter-by-chapter practice questions and exercises, competency skill sheets, flashcards, procedure reviews, and case studies to help you master the content in your textbook. It’s essential in helping you master the skills you need for clinical success.
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Comprehensive practice exercises for each chapter (short answer, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple-choice questions and labeling exercises) help you master key terminology and important concepts.</li></ul>
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A multimedia review section refers you to relevant procedure videos on the text’s Multimedia Procedures DVD to visually reinforce your understanding of chapter content.</li> <li>
Patient case exercises section directs you to patient information on the companion Evolve website’s Interactive Dental Office, including related medical and dental histories, radiographs, and charting information to will help you answer questions that reinforce chapter content and help you develop clinical decision-making skills.</li> <li>
Competency skill sheets provide clear guidelines for each skill and help you evaluate your strengths and weaknesses in performing procedural skills. Pages are also perforated so that you can remove individual skill sheets and take them with you.</li> <li>
Tear-out flashcards summarize key information about the sciences, medical emergencies, infection control, radiography, dental materials, dental instruments, and dental procedures for convenient, portable review of key information necessary to prepare for examinations.</li> </ul>
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Brief case scenarios with accompanying questions challenge you to apply key clinical concepts and prepare you for real world practice.</li> <li>
Competency skills checklists are provided for all procedures new to the textbook, including use of the caries detection device, applying fluoride varnish, taking a patient’s pulse oximetry and ECG, performing intraoral and extraoral photography, and performing radiography with digital sensors and phosphor storage plates.</li> <li>
Patient form activities offer valuable practice filling out blank patient forms that are essential to today’s dental office.</li> </ul>

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