Help your dental assistants develop their skills with The Essentials of Dental Assisting, Sixth Edition. This best-selling guide includes everything from chairside treatment foundations to patient care and clinical procedures. In addition to the clinical skills used daily by your staff, this guide covers the “behind-the-scenes” work of dental assistants such as legal issues, common medical emergencies, patient pain and radiography.

Perfect as a training resource for new assistants or a refresher for current team members, this book:

• Covers professional basics, sciences, infection control and equipment
• Step-by-step procedures for dental assistant responsibilities that include equipment needed, chronological steps and rationales
• Full-color artwork focuses on anatomy and physiology; clinical procedures, dental tools, materials; and equipment
• Chapters on oral radiography, preventative care, restorative and esthetic dental materials and procedures, periodontics, endodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and pediatric dentistry

The Essentials of Dental Assisting
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