Dental materials : clinical applications for dental assistants and dental hygienists /
Hatrick, Carol Dixon,author.
Eakle, W. Stephan,author.
With Dental Materials: Clincial Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists, Third Edition, learn the most current methods of placing-or assisting in the placement of-dental materials, and how to instruct patients in their maintenance. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures show how to mix, use, and apply dental materials within the context of the patient's course of treatment. Themultidisciplinary author team enhances this edition with new chapters on preventive and desensitizing materials, tooth whitening, and preventive and corrective oral appliances and new clinical phots throughout. An Evolve companion website provides new chapter quizzes for classroom and board exam preparation!
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to dental materials -- Oral environment and patient considerations -- Physical and mechanical properties of dental materials -- General handling and safety of dental materials in the dental office -- Principles of bonding -- Composites, glass ionomers, and compomers -- Preventive and desensitizing materials -- Teeth whitening materials and procedures -- Dental ceramics -- Dental amalgam -- Casting metals, solders, and wrought metal alloys -- Dental implants -- Abrasion, finishing, and polishing -- Dental cement -- Impression materials -- Gypsum and wax products -- Polymers for prosthetic dentistry -- Provisional restorations -- Preventive and corrective oral appliances.
With Dental Materials: Clincial Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists, Third Edition, learn the most current methods of placing-or assisting in the placement of-dental materials, and how to instruct patients in their maintenance. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures show how to mix, use, and apply dental materials within the context of the patient's course of treatment. Themultidisciplinary author team enhances this edition with new chapters on preventive and desensitizing materials, tooth whitening, and preventive and corrective oral appliances and new clinical phots throughout. An Evolve companion website provides new chapter quizzes for classroom and board exam preparation!
Dental materials.
Dental materials