Research Guides -- Health Occupations:
Dental Assistant
Web Resources / Electronic
Databases / Books / Videos
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Many web sites deal with medical and health topics. Here are several which
provide accurate, up-to-date information about dental health topics:
American Dental Assistants
Association
http://www.dentalassistant.org/
Covers career information for dental assisting professionals. It links to
continuing education and employment opportunities, dental professional organization
web pages and information about related legislation. It also provides access
to the latest issue of the journal, The Dental Assistant.
American Dental Association
http://www.ada.org/
Includes professional and consumer oral health information.
Dental Related Internet
Resources
http://www.dental-resources.com/
Provides links to educational, clinical and consumer websites.
Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/
A highly recognized website that provides reliable, easy-to-access health care
information for consumers and professionals alike. It covers information across
the health care spectrum, including dental health topics.
National Oral Health
Information Clearinghouse
http://www.nohic.nidcr.nih.gov/
This website is a service of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research. It focuses on the oral health concerns of special care patients, including
people with medical conditions that compromise oral health. It is a bibliographic
database, which means that it contains references or citations to materials,
but it does not contain the articles themselves.
National Center
for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Oral Health Resources
http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/index.htm
Allows browsing by topic and provides access to publications of the Center’s
Division of Oral health, guidelines and recommendations, statistics, and state-by-state
reports on dental public health programs.
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To search for current information in magazine and journal articles, click on
the “Find Articles” link or just click on the title of each database
below. Access from home or work is available for these databases. Click on Off
Campus Users to find out how to connect.
CINAHL
Plus Text
Covers a wide range of topics including nursing, allied health, alternative
therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health administration.
Health
Reference Center - Academic
A full-text database that covers professional and consumer health and medicine
topics.
MEDLINEPlus
Provides access to the MEDLINE index from the National Institutes of Health
plus links to Internet resources containing information that will help research
health topics.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 12
million MEDLINE
citations back to the mid-1960's and to additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related
resources.
Proquest
Nursing Journals
A full-text database that covers a wide range of topics including nursing, allied
health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health administration.
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For a complete listing of materials about nursing and medical topics, click
on the "MATC
Library Catalog" link. It provides access to books, magazines,
reserve materials, audio-visual materials such as videos, and selected web resources.
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
Administrative dental assistant.
617.60068 G287
Community oral health practice for the dental hygienist.
362.1976 G395
Delmar’s dental assisting exam review.
617.601076 T427
Dental office management.
651.96176 D566
Dental terminology.
617.60014 D653
Diet and nutrition in oral health.
617.6 P173
Emergency guide for dental auxiliaries. 3rd ed.
617.6 C521
Essentials of radiography for dental assistants and hygienists. 7th ed.
617.607572 J68
Legal and ethical considerations for dental hygienists and assistants.
344.730413 D265
Mosby's dental dictionary.
617.6003 M894 (1 copy in reference, the other circulating)
Oral pathology for the dental hygienist.
617.522 IB14 2000
Permar's oral embroyology and microscopic anatomy : a textbook for students
in dental hygiene. 9th ed.
611.31 M521 1994
Radiology for dental auxiliaries. 7th ed.
617.6 F932 2001
Torres and Ehrlich modern dental assisting. 7th ed.
617.60233 B618 2002
Safety standards and infection control for dental assistants.
617.6 D566
These are a few of the videocassettes available about dental assisting topics.
Students may check out videos marked as Student AV and are welcome to view Staff
AV materials in the library. You can search for videos in the online catalog
just as you would a book.
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
Assisting during an amalgam restoration: an overview.
617.60028 ASAMA 1986 VIDEO
Efficient dental assisting for fixed prosthodontics.
617.60233 EFFIC 1995 VIDEO
Introduction to the x-ray and safety precautions.
607.607572 INTRO 1992 VIDEO
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