Basic Guide to Dental Procedures 2024

As the title suggests, the book has been written as an introductory guide to the more usual dental procedures carried out in a modern dental practice. It does not attempt to explain the full theoretical and clinical technique behind these procedures; rather, it aims to give a sufficient overview of them, with the use of ‘before and after’ colour photographs and various illustrations to hopefully make the book useful for helping to explain certain dental procedures to patients and also to unqualified dental nurses undergoing their primary training in dental nursing. In this third edition, each chapter has been updated as necessary in line with the latest dental techniques and materials available to the profession. A new chapter relating to treatment under conscious sedation has been included for the benefit of the patients and is also of relevance to the dental nurse in the United Kingdom, as their role in assisting during the treatment of patients under conscious sedation is an extended duty. However, the main readership is envisaged to be dental care professionals, especially those unqualified or inexperienced dental nurses who may not have access to viewing many of the procedures described, as many practices continue to specialise in providing dental care only in certain areas of dentistry. It should be used, then, in conjunction with the excellent textbooks already available for dental nurse training, where more detail of instruments and materials used, more in-depth clinical information and other underpinning knowledge are provided. By popular request, photographic examples of the instruments and materials, which may be required for various procedures, have been retained in this edition, and while the images used provide guidance for those undertaking OSCEstyle training and assessment, they are not intended to be exhaustive in their content.