• Chapters are short with topics separated into easy-to-digest sections.
• Content is divided into six parts, covering all necessary aspects of dental radiography
• Step-by-step procedures throughout the chapters include rationales and charting notes along with essential illustrations and photos to demonstrate techniques properly.
• Quiz questions for each chapter help students assess knowledge and comprehension.
• Example boxes are used throughout the chapters to further explain a process or why it is performed a certain way.
• An interactive CD-ROM, included in every book, features a variety of interactive exercises such as radiograph mounting and mastering steps in equipment assembly; animations to visualize key concepts of how digital radiographs are produced, panoramic positioning errors, and what happens within the dental x-ray tube; and patient case studies in the same format as the national board exam.
• New chapters on Descriptive Terminology and Interpretation of Restorations, Dental Materials, and Foreign Objects to ensure students know these topics inside and out, before they're tested on them when they take the national board exam.

Author Information

Joen M. Iannucci Haring DDS, MS is a Professor of Clinical Dentistry in the Division of Dental Hygiene at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. She received her BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Miami (FL) and both her DDS and MS degrees from The Ohio State University. In addition, she completed a two-year training program and residency in Oral Pathology and Radiology.

Laura Jansen Howerton RDH has served on the Dental Hygiene faculty at the University of North Carolina and Wake Technical Community College. She was named as one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry in 2015. Ms. Howerton is the co-author of two dental hygiene text books.