Dental Materials
Clinical Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists
- 5th Edition - December 10, 2024
- Latest edition
- Authors: W. Stephan Eakle, Kimberly G. Bastin
- Language: English
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Dental Hygiene & Auxiliaries**Stay up to date with the uses, properties, and handling of dental materials! With just the right l… Read more
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Description
Description
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Dental Hygiene & Auxiliaries**
Stay up to date with the uses, properties, and handling of dental materials! With just the right level and scope of content, Dental Materials: Clinical Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists, 5th Edition, emphasizes how knowledge of dental materials fits into day-to-day clinical practice. This hands-on resource features clinically focused content supplemented liberally with high-quality photographs, case applications, clinical tips and warnings, and step-by-step procedures, as well as videos and practice opportunities on a companion website. A focus on application and a strong art program with additional modern illustrations make this often-difficult subject matter approachable and relevant for today’s dental team members.
Stay up to date with the uses, properties, and handling of dental materials! With just the right level and scope of content, Dental Materials: Clinical Applications for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists, 5th Edition, emphasizes how knowledge of dental materials fits into day-to-day clinical practice. This hands-on resource features clinically focused content supplemented liberally with high-quality photographs, case applications, clinical tips and warnings, and step-by-step procedures, as well as videos and practice opportunities on a companion website. A focus on application and a strong art program with additional modern illustrations make this often-difficult subject matter approachable and relevant for today’s dental team members.
Key features
Key features
- NEW! User-friendly features, including Key Points boxes throughout the chapters, more bulleted lists, and shorter paragraphs help you process complex topics more easily
- NEW! Do You Recall boxes pose questions covering important concepts immediately after they’re presented to support knowledge development
- NEW! Step-by-step procedure videos on the Evolve companion website reinforce techniques presented in the text
- NEW and UPDATED! Coverage of implant maintenance offers the latest information and guidelines
- Robust art program features nearly 600 images of full-color conceptual renderings and clinical photographs
- Clinical and laboratory procedures include step-by-step instructions and supporting artwork
- Clinical Tip and Caution boxes highlight important information
- End-of-chapter review questions and case-based discussion topics and practice quizzes on the Evolve companion website provide practice opportunities for classroom and board exam preparation
- Key terms are called out in each chapter and defined in a glossary
- Patient home care instructions in many chapters provide helpful tools for patient education
Readership
Readership
Dental Assisting students; Dental Hygiene students
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction to Dental Materials
2. Oral Environment and Patient Considerations
3. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dental Materials
4. General Handling and Safety of Dental Materials in the Dental Office
5. Impression Materials
6. Gypsum and Wax Products
7. Principles of Bonding
8. Composites
9. Glass Ionomers, Compomers, and Bioactive Materials
10. Dental Ceramics
11. Dental Amalgam
12. Metals and Alloys
13. Dental Implants
14. Polymers for Prosthetic Dentistry
15. Provisional Restorations
16. Dental Cement
17. Abrasion, Finishing, Polishing, and Cleaning
18. Preventive and Desensitizing Materials
19. Teeth Whitening Materials and Procedures
20. Preventive and Corrective Oral Appliances
Appendix
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
Index
List of Procedures
4.1 Safety Data Sheet and Label Exercise
5.1 Making an Alginate Impression
5.2 Making a Double-Bite Impression for
a Crown
5.3 Bite Registration With Elastomeric Material
5.4 Wax Bite Registration
5.5 Disinfection of Impression Material or Bite
Registration
6.1 Mixing Gypsum Products
6.2 Pouring the Cast: Anatomic Portion
6.3 Pouring the Cast: Art (or Base) Portion
6.4 Separating the Impression From the Cast
6.5 Trimming Diagnostic Casts
7.1 Enamel and Dentin Bonding Using the
Etch-and-Rinse Technique
8.1 Placement of Class II Composite Resin
Restoration
10.1 Surface Treatment for Bonding Glass-Based
Ceramic Restorations
11.1 Placing and Carving Class II Amalgam
13.1 Suture Removal
14.1 Fabrication of Custom Acrylic Impression
Trays
15.1 Metal Provisional Crown
15.2 Polycarbonate Provisional Crown
15.3 Custom Provisional Coverage: Direct
Technique
15.4 Intracoronal Provisional Cement
Restoration
16.1 Bonding Orthodontic Brackets
16.2 Zinc Oxide Eugenol Cement (ZOE): Primary
and Secondary Consistency
16.3 Zinc Phosphate Cement: Primary
Consistency
16.4 Zinc Polycarboxylate Cement: Primary
Consistency
16.5 Glass Ionomer Cement: Pre-Dosed Capsule
16.6 Resin-Based Cement for Indirect Restorations:
Ceramic, Porcelain, Composite
16.7 Self-Adhesive Technique for Indirect
Restorations: Ceramic, Porcelain, Composite
17.1 Finishing and Polishing a Preexisting Amalgam
Restoration
17.2 Polishing a Preexisting Composite
Restoration
18.1 Applying Sodium Fluoride Varnish
18.2 Applying Topical Fluoride
18.3 Applying Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF)
18.4 Applying Dental Sealants
19.1 In-Office Whitening
19.2 Clinical Procedures for Home Whitening
19.3 Fabrication of Custom Whitening Trays
20.1 Fabrication of a Sports Mouth Guard
(Protector)
2. Oral Environment and Patient Considerations
3. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dental Materials
4. General Handling and Safety of Dental Materials in the Dental Office
5. Impression Materials
6. Gypsum and Wax Products
7. Principles of Bonding
8. Composites
9. Glass Ionomers, Compomers, and Bioactive Materials
10. Dental Ceramics
11. Dental Amalgam
12. Metals and Alloys
13. Dental Implants
14. Polymers for Prosthetic Dentistry
15. Provisional Restorations
16. Dental Cement
17. Abrasion, Finishing, Polishing, and Cleaning
18. Preventive and Desensitizing Materials
19. Teeth Whitening Materials and Procedures
20. Preventive and Corrective Oral Appliances
Appendix
Answers to Review Questions
Glossary
Index
List of Procedures
4.1 Safety Data Sheet and Label Exercise
5.1 Making an Alginate Impression
5.2 Making a Double-Bite Impression for
a Crown
5.3 Bite Registration With Elastomeric Material
5.4 Wax Bite Registration
5.5 Disinfection of Impression Material or Bite
Registration
6.1 Mixing Gypsum Products
6.2 Pouring the Cast: Anatomic Portion
6.3 Pouring the Cast: Art (or Base) Portion
6.4 Separating the Impression From the Cast
6.5 Trimming Diagnostic Casts
7.1 Enamel and Dentin Bonding Using the
Etch-and-Rinse Technique
8.1 Placement of Class II Composite Resin
Restoration
10.1 Surface Treatment for Bonding Glass-Based
Ceramic Restorations
11.1 Placing and Carving Class II Amalgam
13.1 Suture Removal
14.1 Fabrication of Custom Acrylic Impression
Trays
15.1 Metal Provisional Crown
15.2 Polycarbonate Provisional Crown
15.3 Custom Provisional Coverage: Direct
Technique
15.4 Intracoronal Provisional Cement
Restoration
16.1 Bonding Orthodontic Brackets
16.2 Zinc Oxide Eugenol Cement (ZOE): Primary
and Secondary Consistency
16.3 Zinc Phosphate Cement: Primary
Consistency
16.4 Zinc Polycarboxylate Cement: Primary
Consistency
16.5 Glass Ionomer Cement: Pre-Dosed Capsule
16.6 Resin-Based Cement for Indirect Restorations:
Ceramic, Porcelain, Composite
16.7 Self-Adhesive Technique for Indirect
Restorations: Ceramic, Porcelain, Composite
17.1 Finishing and Polishing a Preexisting Amalgam
Restoration
17.2 Polishing a Preexisting Composite
Restoration
18.1 Applying Sodium Fluoride Varnish
18.2 Applying Topical Fluoride
18.3 Applying Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF)
18.4 Applying Dental Sealants
19.1 In-Office Whitening
19.2 Clinical Procedures for Home Whitening
19.3 Fabrication of Custom Whitening Trays
20.1 Fabrication of a Sports Mouth Guard
(Protector)
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 5
- Latest edition
- Published: March 11, 2025
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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W. Stephan Eakle
W. Stephan Eakle is Professor of Clinical Dentistry Emeritus, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Clinical Dentistry Emeritus, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USAKB
Kimberly G. Bastin
Kimberly G. Bastin is Assistant Dean of Health Professions, Associate Professor and Director of Dental Hygiene, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, Bradenton, Florida.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Dean of Health Professions, Associate Professor and Director of Dental Hygiene, State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, Bradenton, Florida, USA