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Dental Hygiene Subject Guide

 

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This guide lists a selection of print and electronic resources available at the Blinn College Library and on the Web.

Background Information

Books and Audiovisuals

Articles in Magazines, Journals, & Newspapers

Finding Full Text for Article Citations

Dentistry Periodicals

Web Sites

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Background Information

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Encyclopedias and Atlases

Online

StatRef provides access to the full text many medicine and allied health reference books, including Stedman's Medical Dictionary, available under the "Resources" tab.

ACP's Physicians' Information and Education Resource (PIER) is a web-based decision-support tool designed for rapid point-of-care delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based guidance for clinicians, included in the StatRef collection of reference tools.

Delmar's Dental Drug Reference

Periodontal Medicine

Safety Standards and Infection Control for Dental Assistants

In the Library

American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia
R 610.3 Am35m

Atlas of Ultrasonographic Artifacts and Variants
616.07543 Sa56a

The Duke Encyclopedia of New Medicine : Conventional and Alternative Medicine for All Ages
615.5 D885e

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
R 616.003 G131e

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health
R 610.7303 G131e

The Merck Index
R 615.103 M537i

Merrill's Atlas of Radiographic Positioning & Procedures
R 616.07572 F851m

Periodontology: Color Atlas of Dental Medicine
R 617.6 P418e 2005

Physician’s Desk Reference
R 615.058 P569d

Torres and Ehrlich Modern Dental Assisting
617.6 B532t 2005

Dictionaries


Online

A Dictionary of Dental Terms - Created by Rich Masel.

Dental Implant Glossary - World Center for Dental Implantology.

In the Library

Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology : a Glossary of Accepted Terms in All Disciplines of Dentistry
617.6003 B661c 1993

Dental Terminology
617.60014 D676d 2007

Mosby’s Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary
R 610.321 M850m 1990

Stedman’s Medical Dictionary
R 610.3 St31s

Black’s Medical Dictionary
R 610.3 B567m

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary
R 610.3 D734i


Books and Audiovisuals

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Search the Library Catalog

Search for all the books (including ebooks) and other materials owned by all the different campus libraries.

Click here to search Blinn College Library Catalog

Useful Search Terms

Community dental services

Dental assistants

Dental calculus

Dental care

Dental caries

Dental hygiene

Dental hygienists

Dental implants

Dental materials

Dental pharmacology

Dental plaque

Dental prophylaxis

Dental teams

Dental technology

Dental therapeutics

Dentistry

Fillings (dentistry)

Jaws - radiography

Maxilla - diseases

Mouth - cancer

Mouth - diseases

Mouth - anatomy

Mouth - radiography

Mouth - surgery

Nutrition & dental health

Oral manifestations of general diseases

Orthodontics

Periodontal diseases

Periodontics

Sugery, orificial

Teeth - anatomy

Teeth - diseases

Teeth - radiography


Search Ebook Databases

Find more ebooks by searching via the ebook databases directly. You'll be searching through all the words in the books instead of just searching a description of the book.

Click here to search ebrary or NetLibrary

Browse the Shelves

A call number is a book's address on the shelf - that's how we keep them in order so you can find them. The subject of the book determines its call number, so you can browse the books in the following numbers relating to medicine.

Call Numbers

Subjects

610

Medical Sciences/Medicine

611

Human Anatomy, cytology, histology

611.3 - 611.32

Anatomy of the Mouth, tongue, teeth, palate, salivary glands, etc.

612

Human physiology

613

Promotion of health

614

Incidence and prevention of disease

615

Pharmacology and therapeutics

616

Diseases

617

Surgery and related medical specialties

617.6

Dental Care

618

Gynecology and other medical specialties

619

Experimental medicine

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Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Blinn College Library subscribes to several databases that you can use to search for periodical articles in allied health fields.

CINAHL with Full Text - Try this first! Because the focus of CINAHL is on allied health journals, rather than medical journals in general, you are more likely to find articles from dentistry & dental hygiene journals. Don't let the title fool you, though - not all of the articles are full text in this database, although they claim to be the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.

Consumer Health Complete / Salud en Espanol - This is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Health Reference Center Academic (Academically oriented) / Health and Wellness Resource Center (Consumer oriented) - Both of these databases index over 800 health periodicals, many full text reference books and pamphlets. Many articles are available full text. While there is a great deal of overlap in the content of these two databases, Health Reference Center Academic provides more advanced search capabilities, while Health and Wellness Resource Center provides a graphical, more intuitive interface.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition - This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Health Source - Consumer Edition - A rich collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.

MedicLatina - A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINE - provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE indexes citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. While MEDLINE does not have the full text of the articles, we access it through EBSCO, who provide s links to full text if an articles is availiable from another of our EBSCO databases.

Alternative Health Watch - Description: This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Natural & Alternative Treatments - contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection - Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Open Access Initiative Databases

The Open Access Initiative (OAI) is a new way for scholars to publish research findings. Since a great deal of research is subsidized by governments or institutions, scholars have been pushing for ways to publish that ensure free and unrestricted access to scholarly & research journals. The following two free databases index articles published in open access journals. The open access journals are generally not indexed in the library databases listed above, although MEDLINE does index some of them.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals and Open J-Gate

And a really special search engine...

Google Scholar - Use this version of Google to search the web for scholarly articles on your topic. The drawback is that if Google doesn't link you to full text, you will have to go through the steps mentioned below to see if full text is available through the Blinn College Library. Try the library's databases and open access journal databases first.

Finding Full Text for Article Citations

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What if I have citation (or reference) information for an article, and I need to find the full text of the article?

Identify the title of the periodical (journal, magazine, or newspaper) that published the article, then search the databases below to see if that periodical is available through Blinn Library.

  • TDNet - See if one of the Blinn Library databases has full text for the periodical.

  • CINAHL - This allied health database is not covered in TDNet. Click on "Publications" in the blue menu bar at the top of the page to do a periodical title search.

  • EJS: Electronic Journal Service - See if Blinn Library has an online subscription for the periodical.

  • Blinn Library Catalog - See if Blinn Library subscribes to your periodical. In the Browse search box, choose "Journal Title" from the drop-down menu, and type in the periodical title.

  • Article Request Form - If the periodical you want is housed at a different campus than the one you attend, fill out this form. You'll usually get your article within 24 hours.

  • Interlibrary Loan - If Blinn Library doesn't have access to the journal you need, contact a librarian to ask about Interlibrary Loan.

 

Dentistry Periodicals

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The Library subscribes to the following periodicals of interest:

Online

Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene (ejournal)

Journal of Dental Hygiene (ejournal)

Modern Hygienist (ejournal)

Online and in the Library

JADA: Journal of the American Dental Association (Bryan, ejournal)

JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (Brenham, Bryan & ejournal)

Journal of Allied Health (Bryan, ejournal)

Journal of Periodontology (Bryan, ejournal)

In the Library

American Journal of Dentistry (Bryan)

Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry (Bryan)

Dental Assistant: Journal of the American Dental Assistants Association (Bryan)

Dentistry Today (Bryan)

Health (Brenham & Bryan)

Hygienetown: Where the Dental Hygiene Community Lives (Bryan)

Journal of Clinical Dentistry (Bryan)

Journal of Practical Hygiene (Bryan)

Journal of Community Health (Bryan)

New England Journal of Medicine (Brenham, Bryan)

Texas Dental Journal (Bryan)

 

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Web Sites

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Medical Sites

Centers for Disease Control: Oral Health Resources

Centers for Disease Control: Diseases and Conditions

MedlinePlus - Contains pages of carefully selected links to Web resources with authoritative health information, including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources and 650 health topics. It also contains links to pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE and PubMed databases, allowing you to find references to latest health professional articles on your topic.

National Library of Medicine Databases and Electronic Resources

Healthcare Freeware

The Merck Manuals

Dental Hygiene/Dentistry Organizations

American Dental Hygienists Association: Professional Issues - Promotes oral health of the general public, increases access for under served populations and promotes the professional growth of its members.

American Academy of Periodontology - Provides information for consumers as well as health professionals.

American Association of Public Health Dentistry - Serves as a forum for the exchange of information and ideas. Offers links to data, documents, and government information pertinent to public health dentistry.

American Dental Assistants Association - "Provides continuing education to dental assistants through home study courses, professional journals and local, state and national meetings with educational agendas." Provides links to many state dental associations.

 

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