This text provides a comprehensive look at the dental hygiene process and encourages the use of critical thinking. Quality, individualized client care developed through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation are emphasized.

Product Benefits:

• more than 20 tables provide easy reference and visualization of categories, checklists and guidelines
• learning objectives and exercises included in each chapter enable the reader to assess his/her own progress
• behavior models give some insights into this critical aspect of care
• the only text on the market that provides guidelines for formulating a dental hygiene diagnosis
• Text uses conceptual framework of the process of dental hygiene care which moves from assessment through to evaluation.