Case Studies in Dental Hygiene

Excellent tool for studying for the board exam.

A class I'm taking required this book. I didn't purchase because I "wanted to"- but I must admit these assignments make me think & evaluate complex but common situations that I may experience with patients in the future as a RDH. The only thing I don't like so far, is that it seems to inject information at the end of each case study in the "setting patient goals". I try to do my own care plan first & compare with the book. Then I look over what the book has & it will state a condition (say, xerostomia) that the patient has, but no where does it say that previously. It seems like information is "made up" by the author. It's pretty frustrating. That aside, the complexity of each case study is great. It makes you work outside of the book- looking up medications, health conditions, interpretation of radiographs & intraoral photos. it gives great objectives to focus on & questions to answer that are really vital to understand & apply correctly. It's a good supplement to my class material.

Textbook as if seeing real patients. I would like it if in the answers pages they gave more details why something was correct. Been a little since I read it but I wish it had given more details.

This book was extremely helpful while studying for the National Dental Hygiene Board Exam. This book includes the story of the patient, their medical history, periodontal and hard tissue chart, intra-oral photos and radiographs. The questions are great and I was happy with the answer portion because it gave an explanation why it was that answer. I really enjoyed the different patient categories as well. I felt very prepared for the case study portion of the exam because of this book.

This had writing in it so I wasn't able to use it during my case tests.