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Delmar's Handbook of Essential Skills and Procedures for Chairside Dental Assisting

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My wife is a Dental Assistant that took a few years off to stay at home with our daughter. She purchased this book as a re-fresher as she returns back into the dental field. Detailed and to the point. Very pleased with the purchase.

I am a dentist and bought this to train my assistant. It's a good book, with good depth of theory and a great amount of reference information such as infection control laws. However, the presentation of instruments is pretty poor, with poor quality pictures, a poor and very limited selection of photos of instruments and setups for the various procedures, and it doesn't contain a comprehensive listing of steps for the main dental procedures. Hence, this is a good reference book but not the best practical guide to actual procedures.

I am a dentist and also own a dental assisting school, for which we use this as a textbook. It is a good overview of the basics such as tooth anatomy, sterilization, xrays, etc. It does not cover specific instruments or procedures. We use an additional instrument guide, and we just teach the procedures hands on in class.