Dental instruments - Melanie Mitchell

Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide to Identification is a pocket guide for dental assisting students for quick reference and review of dental instruments, their uses, their placement on a tray, and their different varieties. This pocket guide is used while in clinical courses, during clinical internships, as a review companion to clinical courses, and is a resource for students to take with them to their first job. Unique to this title is the companion student resources CD-ROM in the back of the book, which provides the student with an interactive learning experience. The CD-ROM includes an image bank, interactive tray set-ups, crossword puzzles, student quizzes, and more games and activities for self-study.
Dental assisting faculty has the challenge of simulating a clinical environment and making a student comfortable and confident before they are with a patient in a real clinical setting. This text with the companion CD-ROM does just that.

Melanie Mitchell was employed as a clinical dental assistant in orthodontics and general practice before becoming an instructor and director of the Dental Assistant Program at the Wichita Area Technical College (WATC). Melanie recently retired after 25 years as the director of the Dental Assistant Program and continues to serve as an adjunct instructor at WATC. She has been a DANB Certified Dental Assistant since 1972. She is a life member of the American Dental Assistants Association and has held numerous leadership positions at both the local and state level. Melanie received the American Dental Assistant Association, Sullivan-Schein Award of Excellence in 1999. She has also written, Clinical Primer: A Pocket Guide for Dental Assistants, a resource book for use during clinical practice.