Four-Handed Dentistry: A Handbook of Clinical Application and Ergonomic Concepts - Softcover

Betty, Finkbeiner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130304131 ISBN 13: 9780130304131

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2001

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Book by Finkbeiner CDA RDA MS Betty Ladley

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Reseña del editor:

For courses in all of the dental professions-particularly in dental assisting. Uniquely focused, comprehensive, and extensively illustrated, this review of sit-down, Four-Handed Dentistry is an ideal how-to text/reference manual for the entire dental health team. The emphasis throughout is on the implementation of efficient procedures for a productive, stress-free clinical environment-i.e., how to practice efficiently and how to select equipment that is ergonomically sound-that will improve productivity and reduce strain. Coverage begins with an overview of the principles of Four-Handed Dentistry and motion economy, treatment room design, types of delivery systems, and basic equipment selection; then details the basic techniques used to promote ergonomic concepts during routine dental treatment, such as seating the patient and operating team, instrument transfer, oral evacuation.

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Uniquely focused, comprehensive, and extensively illustrated, this review of sit-down, fourhanded dentistry is an ideal how-to manual for the entire dental health team. This book can be used as a brief supplement for dental assisting courses as well as a professional reference for dental practitioners. The emphasis throughout is on the implementation of efficient procedures for a productive, stress-free clinical environment that will improve productivity and reduce strain.

This handbook begins with an overview of the principles of four-handed dentistry and motion economy, treatment room design, types of delivery systems, and basic equipment selection. It then details the basic techniques used to promote ergonomic concepts during routine dental treatment, such as seating, instrument transfer, and oral evacuation.

FEATURES

• Written by a recognized professional who studies four-handed dentistry under the original researchers and who has taught dental assistants, dental students, practicing dentists an hygienists for three decades.
• Unique focus on four-handed dentistry demonstrates how a dentist working with a skilled dental assistant can increase productivity by at least 33%.
• Includes step-by-step procedure boxes for each concept and extensive "how-to" pictures to help readers review techniques and visualize procedures.
• Emphasizes ergonomic clinical practice, from the selection and placement of equipment to executing safe, efficient instrument exchange and oral evacuation techniques.
• Helps readers evaluate existing equipment for ergonomic function.

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• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130304131
• ISBN 13: 9780130304131
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64