Dental Assisting Results
* Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Health & Medical Complete*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Over 1200 full-text journals covering medical research, administration, and consumer-interest topics.
Health Source*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Journals and pamphlets covering nursing and allied health disciplines. Also includes a medical dictionary and a drug guide covering over 4700 brand name and 1300 generic products.
Medline*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: A comprehensive index of articles in medical journals worldwide.
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
EBSCOhost*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
JSTOR*
(Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.
ProQuest Newspapers
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."
ProQuest*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language
Oxford Reference Online
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press
Free Resources on the Web
- ADA Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry - Portal to Dental Science Info
- CDC Division of Oral Health - Portal to Oral Health Resources
- MedlinePlus - A Health Information Portal from the Natl. Library of Medicine
- MedlinePlus: Medical Encyclopedia
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Dental Assistants
- Pharmacy: Drug Information Portal (NLM/NIH)
- Pharmacy: Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information (MedlinePlus)
- Pharmacy: Medscape Reference - Dental and Oral Care Drugs
- PubMed / MEDLINE Database (Coverage includes dental journal literature)
- PubMed Central (PMC) - Archive of Biomedical and Life Science Journals
- Reference--Dentistry: Dental Disorders (Merck Manual)
- Reference--Dentistry: Dentistry Safety and Health Topics (OSHA)
- Reference--Dentistry: Gum Disease (MedlinePlus)
- Reference--Dentistry: Mouth and Dental Disorders (Merck Home Health)
- Reference--Dentistry: Oral Health Topics (NIDCR)
- Reference--Dentistry: Patient Info. Sheets (Amer. Acad. of Oral Med.)
- Reference--Dentistry: Tooth Disorders (Medline Plus)
- Reference--X-Rays in Dentistry: Dental Cone-Beam CT (FDA)
- Reference--X-Rays in Dentistry: Dental Radiographic Exams (FDA/ADA)
- Reference--X-Rays in Dentistry: Dental Radiology - X-Rays (RPOP/IAEA)
- Regulatory/Licensing Agency: Dental Assisting National Board
- Regulatory/Licensing Agency: Dental Board of California
- Research Center: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Research Center: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- Society: American Academy of Periodontology (AAP)
- Society: American Dental Assistants Association (ADAA)
- Society: American Dental Association (ADA)
- Society: American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA)
- Society: California Dental Assistants Association (CDAA)
- Society: California Dental Association (CDA)
- Society: California Dental Hygienists' Association (CDHA)
- Society: Expanded Functions Dental Assistants Association (EFDAA)
- Society: San Diego County Dental Society
- Statistics: Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Data Resource Center
- Statistics: Natl. Center for Health Statistics/CDC – Oral and Dental Health
- Statistics: World Health Organization - Oral Health Fact Sheet
- Website Links from the Mesa College Dental Assisting Program
