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Spanish Terminology for the Dental Team, 1e

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I have spoken Spanish fluently for over ten years and have spent the last four years translating for dental patients and professionals. This book describes dental terms in a way that may be understood by other Spanish dental professionals, but not by your Spanish patients. For example, I have not met a single Spanish-speaking patient who would ever use "dentadura" instead of "placa" when referring to a denture, and more than 70% of my patients are Latino. The ordering of the phrases is sometimes awkward, such as commonly placing the subject before the predicate in a question, which is usually reversed in Spanish. I'm still looking for a good Spanish Dental Terminology reference.

this book is VERY helpful if you work in the dental field and have dificulties explaining treatments in spanish. Some of the terminology is a little too formal and wouldnt translate easy for some patients but that is a very small percentage.
Great book, worth the money.

This guide is helpful if you already have a basic understanding of Spanish. Although it has a great introduction, it would be nearly impossible to pick up the language just based on this book alone. The phrases are very complete and thorough.

This is an excellent reference on english to spanish translation of words and phrases necessary to render dental care to spanish speaking folks. It is not however, a substitute for a rudimentary working ability to speak/read spanish. It comes with a CD that has pretty much the entire book on it so that one can print out any or all of the book that they find themselves using frequently. I would recommend this book along with a good elementary education in conversational spanish through local academic intitutions or computer assisted instruction.

The CD that came with my book did not seem to be recorded in professional studios. There is backgroud noise and is hard to follow when compared to some other Spanish CDs I studied before. However, I am only a beginner in learning Spanish.

This is a cool book, lots of useful phrases. But I'm not sure how well I'll do with learning and using them!