The cornerstone text of almost every dental hygienist's library is now in its thoroughly updated Tenth Edition. Written in a straightforward, concise outline format, this text equips students and practitioners with the clinical and educational skills needed for successful practice. Features includes full-color artwork and photographs, case-based exercises, procedure boxes, and ethics boxes. The Tenth Edition presents the latest technical advances and research findings and includes a new chapter on teeth whitening, plus new sections on cultural competence, detailed home visit, street drugs, and indices for early childhood caries and root caries.

A bound-in CD-ROM includes clinical video clips, an audio pronunciation glossary, and board case style questions with rationales.

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

This revised and updated classic provides concise, up-to-date information on all aspects of dental hygiene in the clinical environment. Perfect for the student and a great reference in private practice, this text addresses the dental hygiene process of care: assessment, formulation of the diagnosis and treatment plan, implementation, and evaluation with follow-up. New to this edition are: chapter outlines; new chapters on disease prevention, patients using tobacco, and pain control; and new information on slow release substances (for treating disease pockets), bone marrow transfer and chemo-therapy/radiation patients, and more!