**Selected for 2025 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.
1. 1. Introduction to Dental Materials - p. 1 2. 2. Oral Environment and Patient Considerations - p. 7 3. 3. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dental Materials - p. 24 4. 4. General Handling and Safety of Dental Materials in the Dental Office - p. 34 5. 5. Impression Materials - p. 51 6. 6. Gypsum and Wax Products - p. 93 7. 7. Principles of Bonding - p. 120 8. 8. Composites - p. 139 9. 9. Glass Ionomers, Compomers, and Bioactive Materials - p. 170 10. 10. Dental Ceramics - p. 180 11. 11. Dental Amalgam - p. 203 12. 12. Metals and Alloys - p. 226 13. 13. Dental Implants - p. 246 14. 14. Polymers for Prosthetic Dentistry - p. 275 15. 15. Provisional Restorations - p. 306 16. 16. Dental Cement - p. 333 17. 17. Abrasion, Finishing, Polishing, and Cleaning - p. 369 18. 18. Preventive and Desensitizing Materials - p. 394 19. 19. Teeth Whitening Materials and Procedures - p. 421 20. 20. Preventive and Corrective Oral Appliances - p. 440 21. AppendixA - p. 454 22. Glossary - p. 456 23. Index - p. 464 24. IBC - p. 480
**Selected for 2025 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.
1. 1. Introduction to Dental Materials - p. 1 2. 2. Oral Environment and Patient Considerations - p. 7 3. 3. Physical and Mechanical Properties of Dental Materials - p. 24 4. 4. General Handling and Safety of Dental Materials in the Dental Office - p. 34 5. 5. Impression Materials - p. 51 6. 6. Gypsum and Wax Products - p. 93 7. 7. Principles of Bonding - p. 120 8. 8. Composites - p. 139 9. 9. Glass Ionomers, Compomers, and Bioactive Materials - p. 170 10. 10. Dental Ceramics - p. 180 11. 11. Dental Amalgam - p. 203 12. 12. Metals and Alloys - p. 226 13. 13. Dental Implants - p. 246 14. 14. Polymers for Prosthetic Dentistry - p. 275 15. 15. Provisional Restorations - p. 306 16. 16. Dental Cement - p. 333 17. 17. Abrasion, Finishing, Polishing, and Cleaning - p. 369 18. 18. Preventive and Desensitizing Materials - p. 394 19. 19. Teeth Whitening Materials and Procedures - p. 421 20. 20. Preventive and Corrective Oral Appliances - p. 440 21. AppendixA - p. 454 22. Glossary - p. 456 23. Index - p. 464 24. IBC - p. 480
