by Melanie Mitchell, Total Care Total Care Programming, Inc.

Clinical Primer is a pocket guide for dental assisting students for quick reference and review of fundamental clinical skills and knowledge. This book is used while in clinical courses, during clinical internships, as a review companion to clinical courses, and is a resource for the student to take with them to their first job.

With this handy pocket reference and interactive CD-ROM, you’ll easily master the core skills you need to be a successful clinical dental assistant. Clear, concise explanations are coupled with plenty of diagrams, photos, tables, charts, bulleted lists, and step-by-step clinical procedures. Together, these learning aids let you quickly review tray set-ups, dental materials, dental charting, cement mixing, XCP instrument assembly, and film placement, to prepare the student and to use as a resource for their first job.

This handy pocket reference and interactive CD-ROM will help you learn and retain important information you need as a dental assistant, and it is all in one place. The “Pocket Guide” format allows you to have a complete and handy resource during clinical dental assistant practice. You can quickly and effortlessly review tray setups, dental materials, dental charting, cement mixing, assembling the XCP instrument, and film placements. The hands-on Pocket Guide plus interactive CD-ROM facilitate learning and can be used as a reference or for review. Interactive exercises, procedure videos, a database of dental materials, and Internet links will make your career as a dental assistant easier.