Dental Assisting/Dental Hygiene Programs
The following information is an overview of information relevant to the Dental Assisting/Dental Hygiene Programs found in the Hartfield Library at Henderson Community College. This information is not intended to be a complete list of such material, but rather is a sampling of some titles that will be helpful and easily found in the Hartfield Library.
“[Dental Assistants] prepare patients, sterilize and disinfect instruments, set up instrument trays, prepare materials, and assist dentists during dental procedures. Expose dental diagnostic X rays. Record treatment information in patient records. Take and record medical and dental histories and vital signs of patients. Provide postoperative instructions prescribed by dentist. Assist dentist in management of medical and dental emergencies. Pour, trim and polish study casts. Instruct patients in oral hygiene and plaque control programs. Make preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts. Clean and polish removable appliances. Clean teeth, using dental instruments. Apply protective coating of fluoride to teeth. Fabricate temporary restorations and custom impressions from preliminary impressions. Schedule appointments, prepare bills and receive payment for dental services, complete insurance forms, and maintain records, manually or using computer.” (O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 3rd edition, page 301.)
“[Dental Hygienists] clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments. Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease. Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist. Feel lymph nodes under patient’s chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer. Apply fluorides and other cavity-preventing agents to arrest dental decay. Examine gums, using probes, to locate periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease. Expose and develop X-ray film. Provide clinical services and health education to improve and maintain oral health of schoolchildren. Remove excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth. Make impressions for study casts. Place, carve, and finish amalgam restorations. Administer local anesthetic agents. Conduct dental health clinics for community groups to augment services of dentist. Remove sutures and dressings. Place and remove rubber dams, matrices, and temporary restorations.” (O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles, 3rd edition, page283-284.)
To find information useful for classes in this program, you may look in several places. Our library's online catalog is called Voyager. Using Voyager, you can do a basic search by typing in key words, such as "dental assisting" or “dental hygiene.” Voyager will show you all the books and audiovisual materials available on the selected topic. You will find that many Library of Congress call numbers on these subjects begin with the letter “Q” or “R" (e.g. for books on “dental hygiene,” look at books with the call number RK60.7). If you wanted to browse the shelves in the reference collection or in the circulating collection located on the second floor, both the “Q” and the "R" sections would be a good places to look. You may also look in the online databases of periodical articles, the hard copy periodicals, the audiovisual collection, or Internet Web sites. Each of these sources of information is explained below.
If you have questions or need assistance in finding additional materials, please see a librarian at the reference desk or contact the reference desk at 270-831-9767. Email assistance is available at kevin.reid@kctcs.edu.
FINDING BOOKS
To find books in either the reference or circulating collections, use Voyager. When searching Voyager, please remember to limit your searches to Henderson Community College; otherwise the search will find books held in any of the KCTCS libraries. More thorough instructions on the use of Voyager are available in the tri-fold brochure titled “Using Voyager.” This brochure is available at the front of the library.
Subject Headings are key words or phrases used in Voyager to tell you what a book is about. The most efficient and productive searches are those that use Subject Headings. Some of the Subject Headings that are particularly useful for students in the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs are:
Allied Health Personnel
Decay, Tooth
Dental Assistants
Dental Care
Dental Hygienists
Dental Materials
Dental Photography
Dental Technicians
Dentistry
Gums - Diseases
Microbiology
Mouth - Cancer
Mouth - Care and Hygiene
Nutrition and Dental Health
Oral Examinations
Periodontal disease
Physiology
Teeth
Reference Books
Reference materials are materials that are created to give you general information about a topic. After you read the information in a reference book, you can search the library for more detailed and extensive information. Hopefully, you will find some good ideas about useful subject headings or key words that are relevant to your topic by looking through the reference books. When you are ready to search for more information about your topic, you can use the library's online catalog, Voyager. Below is a list of titles of some reference books that you might find helpful. Because these are reference books, they cannot be checked out; instead they are to be used in the library.
1. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, REF R 121 .D73
2. Glossary of Orthodontic Terms, REF RK 521 .D28
3. Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference, REF RK701 .G133 2005
4. Gray’s Anatomy, REF QM 23.2 .G73
Books That Can Be Checked Out (Circulating Books)
Circulating books are books that can be checked out of the library. The circulating collection is located on the second floor of the library. Anyone with a valid library card may check out these books. Below are some titles that may be of interest to students in the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs.
1. Building A Medical Vocabulary: With Spanish Translations, R 123 .L46 2001
2. Introduction to Health Occupations, R 697 .A4 B33 2004
3. Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist, RK 60.5 .W5 2005
4.Community Oral Health Practices for the Dental Hygienist, RK 52 .G48 2005
5. Success in Dental Assisting!, RK 60.5 .G53 2006
6. The Manual of Dental Assisting, RK 60.5 .M26 2005
7. Prentice Hall Health Complete Review of Dental Assisting,
RK 60.5 .A54 2004
8. Delmar’s Dental Assisting, RK 60.5 .P45 2004
Electronic Books
Many of the library's newest books for the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs are available electronically through the Voyager online catalog. To access these books, simply enter a search in Voyager, and scan the resulting titles. If an e-book is available, the phrase, "[electronic resource]" will appear after the title. Click on the title to read any of the electronic books. You can check the books out for up to four hours. Additional instructions for accessing electronic books are available at the reference desk. Some Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene titles include:
FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Students generally find articles taken from magazines and journals to be particularly useful sources of current information. To help students, the Hartfield Library subscribes to a wide variety of periodicals in both hard copy and electronic formats. The articles available electronically are found on a number of databases accessible through the library's web page. For instructions on how to access articles from the specific databases, use the tri-fold brochures available in the front of the library (e.g. "How to Use InfoTrac.")
Printed Periodicals
The following periodical titles are available in the hardcopy format on the library's first floor and are of value to the students of the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs.
1. Access
2. AGD Impact
3. Dental Abstracts
4. Dentistry Today
5. Journal of the American Dental Association
6. Journal of Periodontology
7. Journal of Public Health Dentistry
8. KDA Today
9. Oral Health
10. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontics
11. RDH
Online Databases
Each of these databases contains hundreds of full-text articles as they were published in various national magazines and journals. To see which periodicals are available full-text in each database, select that database, go to the message "Title List" and click on it to review the list (in the ProQuest databases, click on “Publication Search”). If you want to read an article from a specific periodical after searching a database, be sure to specify that title during your search.
Please note that each database offers help screens that explain how the search engine of that database operates. These help screens also identify the advanced search options for students who want to fine-tune their searches.
EBSCO Databases
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Allied & Health Literature)
Pre-CINAHL
MEDLINE
Clinical Pharmacology
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Professional Development Collection
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
AcademicSearch Premier
MasterFile Premier
InfoTrac
Health Reference Center Academic
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Expanded Academic ASAP
ProQuest
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
Career and Technical Education
First Search
MEDLINE
ECO
WorldCat
Audio-Visual Materials
Audio-visual materials can come in many forms. Videos, DVD's, CD's, filmstrips, and slides are all audio-visual materials. At the Hartfield Library, many of our audio-visual materials are DVDs and videos. The audio-visual materials are located on the first floor, in room LB 102. The titles below may be of interest to students in the Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs.
- Delmar’s Dental Assisting Series, AV RK 60.5 .D334
- Basic Infection Control, AV RA 969 .I4 B37
- Dental Care for Kids, AV RK 55 .C5 D32
- Gum Disease, AV RK 361 .G86
- Health Information Management, AV RA 976.5 .H43
- P.A.N.D.A.: Prevent Abuse and Neglect through Dental Awareness, AV RD 94 .P36
Internet Web Sites
Internet sites are becoming increasingly useful. Many sites—especially those associated with professional organizations offer connections to information such as articles, bibliographies, and job search engines. A few such useful web sites are listed below. Please be aware that electronic addresses do change frequently. If an address listed below becomes obsolete, use an Internet search engine like Yahoo or Google to find the new address for the organization.
1. http://www.ada.org
American Dental Association
This site offers a search the site feature. It also provides information on a variety of dental topics, including the following: your practice, governmetn and advocacy, education and careers, meetings and events, publications, oral health topics, ADA Seal products, tips for teachers, children’s games, news media, and video resources.
2. http://www.adha.org
American Dental Hygienist Association
This site provides a search feature. It also provides information on a variety of topics, including: job classifications, oral health information, career information, continuing education, professional issues, students, about ADHA, members annual sessions, NDHN, press room, shopping, publications, and related links.
3. http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/dhnet
National Center for Dental Hygiene Research, University of Southern California
This site provides links to the following: online library and research forum; grant funding and opportunities; professional education; clinical practice; the informed consumer; national center news; professional associations; schools, programs, and student sites; government/community sites; vendors and products; as well as general information and gateway sites.
4. http://www.ama-assn.org
The American Medical Association (AMA).
This site offers a search the site feature. The mission of the AMA is to help doctors help patients and provides information on such topics as medical advocacy, a wide variety of professional resources, and news in the medical field.
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