Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide

It is a fundamental skill for all dental assistants, dental hygienists, and dentists to be
able to properly identify all dental instruments at a glance, and know when and why
they are used. Students cannot progress in the clinical area without mastery of this
basic skill. Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide's is a 4x6 spiral-bound text (which lays open from top to bottom, not left to right). This format allows students to view a photograph or line drawing of an individual instrument on the top page, with no identification or description. On the bottom page, there is a full description of the instrument, including the name, use, and characteristics of the instrument.Flashcard format shows the picture of an instrument on the top page of each 2-page spread, with a description of that instrument on the bottom page.Spiral binding allows the book to lay flat or fold over so that just the instrument or its description, or both, is visible.Small size makes it easy to carry and use at any time.Approximately 200 individual photographs or line drawings of general dentistry instruments make it easy to recognize and identify instruments.Each instrument is pictured alone on a page, without any description or text, allowing the reader to learn the instrument's name without hints or clues.Specialty instruments are included in separate chapters devoted to each specialty.A brief description of each instrument includes the name of the instrument, as well as its uses and characteristics, with each description broken into the same three categories to make memorization easier.Photographs of tray set-ups at the end of most chapters, made up of many of the instruments that were included in that chapter, provide an example of how the instruments in a certain chapter can be laid out in a tray set-up.