Dental Assisting

The professional association of dental professionals, the ADA has great information available for free. Be sure to check out Oral Health Topics A to Z.

Keep current on developments and advances in general dentistry with abstracts, graphs, tables, and figures from original research articles.

Provides articles & information relating to the careers of dental assistants & the dental assisting profession in matters of education, legislation, credentials & professional activities.

Electronic and print journals owned by Portland Community College. This list contains links to journals by topic. Includes: biology, medicine, microbiology, health, dental, nursing, veterinary medicine, zoology. Many of the journals listed are peer reviewed. See also: Journals and Magazines by Title; What is a Journal.

News updates and peer-reviewed research articles on current topics in dentistry, clinical practice, legal topics in dentistry, and continuing education materials.

Excellent source of oral health research in such areas as genetics and the brain, innovative testing methodologies, curriculum reform, reviews of clinical trials regarding oral, dental, and craniofacial diseases and disorder.

Geared toward an international readership, Journal of Dentistry provides excellent information on management of dental disease, long-term clinical trials, evaluation of dental equipment, new experimental techniques, epidemiology and oral health, dental biomaterials science, restorative dentistry, periodontology, endodontology, operative dentistry, prosthodontics, pediatric dentistry, orthodontics and dental education.

Focusing on the evidence-based method (use or rejection of a procedure based on solid, clinical evidence found in literature), this journal contains articles and reviews of research in clinical procedures and treatments.

Magazine geared toward dental hygienists, topics range from clinical and practice management to continuing education.