Dental Terminology

Dofka, a retired dental hygienist and instructor, helps dental students and professionals learn terminology. She groups terms by specialty or area of interest, and provides new and expanded material and review exercises at the ends of chapters. This edition also has updates on new equipment, materials, and techniques, and duties, services, and employment concerns; more graphic and enhanced visual aids with color; new tests and examples; and more on anxiety abatement controls for pain reduction, palate structure, palatine areas, and sensory divisions and branches of the trigeminal nerve, as well as the use of some materials and metals, computer-assisted systems in the CAD/CAM area of restoration and appliances, corrective orthodontic procedures involving banding or brackets, lingual or Invisalign braces, and Class II corrective and anchor devices, the measurement and recording of periodontal conditions and additional examination concerns and diagnostic testing, and insurance, legal, and ethical terms. It has information on charting and diagnosis of pulpal conditions; surgical procedures for maxillofacial treatment of temporomandibular joint disorder, bone reconstruction, implant placement, and other disorders; tooth eruption and exfoliation; digital radiography; smile makeover with tooth reconstruction, gingival reductions and augmentation, implant placement, and other cosmetic procedures; and new isolation of restorative sites methods with new matrix placement and dry field illuminators. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)