Product Description
This visually impressive, well-illustrated book presents comprehensive coverage of anatomy of the head and neck, with special emphasis on the anatomy of the temporomandibular joint. Essential topics such as administering local anesthesia and the spread of dental infection are addressed in detail. With 300 high-quality illustrations and a vivid, two-color format, this outstanding, in-depth book enhances the reader's understanding of anatomical parts and focal points for injection sites that are essential to the dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting fields. Identification exercises, review questions, NEW case studies, and detailed, step-by-step procedures-including NEW step-by-step procedures for intraoral and extraoral examinations-reinforce information and facilitate thinking skills that readers will rely on as a strong basis for future study and practice.
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Synopsis
This illustraed text aims to offer dental hygiene students and practitioners the knowledge of head and neck anatomy they need. Explanations and examples demonstrate the spatial relationships of structures: anterior-posterior, medial-lateral, superior-inferior. The text offers study aides including chapter outlines and objectives, a glossary, identification exercises, review questions (with answers at the end of the book), a pronunciation guide and tables. It emphasizes specific anatomy of the temporomandibular joint for an understanding of disorders associated with it. Clinical chapters on use of local anesthesia and the spread of dental infection are included. Clinical photographs and line drawings depict specific anatomical structures.
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