Post Registration Qualifications for Dental Care Professionals: Questions and Answers

Post Registration Qualifications for Dental Care Professionals: Questions and Answers is a comprehensive revision aid for dental nurses seeking to gain post–registration certification for professional development. Chapters cover qualifications in special care dental nursing, oral health education, dental sedation nursing, dental implant nursing, dental radiography and orthodontic dental nursing.

Valuable for furthering knowledge and skills in a variety of advanced dental nursing topics, questions cover the full breadth of necessary topics for each qualification, with detailed explanatory answers designed to fully test the reader s comprehension at the end of each chapter. Students can gain further understanding using the companion website which features sample questions mirroring each exam format, including multiple choice questions (MCQs), extended matching questions (EMQs), and short answer questions (SAQs).

Post Registration Qualifications for Dental Care Professionals: Questions and Answers is an essential resource for dental care professionals who are looking to further advance their careers.

How to use this book vii

Acknowledgements ix

About the companion website xi

1 Special care dental nursing 1

2 Oral health education 59

3 Dental sedation nursing 134

4 Dental implant nursing, 260

5 Dental radiography 315

6 Orthodontic dental nursing 443

Nicola Rogers is a Dental Nursing Tutor at the Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, UK. She is the author of Basic Guide to Dental Sedation Nursing (Wiley–Blackwell, 2011).

Rebecca Davies is a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology at the School of Oral and Dental Sciences, Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, UK.

Wendy Lee is a DCP Tutor and Orthodontic Therapist at the Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, UK.

Dominic O′Sullivan is a Professor in Restorative Dentistry at the School of Oral and Dental Sciences, Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, UK.

Frances Marriott is joint Director of Focus Oral Health CIC in Plymouth, UK providing an oral health education and information service for inter–professional and community audiences.