Dental Hygiene

Books

Textbooks
Search for Dental Hygiene textbooks by course number via this list of textbooks on reserve. Also search by title in the Library's catalog. Request textbooks at the Circulation Desk. Use these books for up to two hours in the Library. Call numbers are designated by course number, e.g. DEN 105.

Print Books
Search for books in the Library's catalog. Also find print materials via the "Books and eBooks" tab on the Library website. Search by topic, title, author, etc.

• Circulating Books: Located on the Lower Level. Check out up to 10 books for 2 weeks at a time with your FSC ID
• Reference Books: Located on the First Floor. Must be used within the Library. Includes encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, test prep books, etc.

eBooks
Search for ebooks via the "Books and eBooks" tab on the Library website. Search by topic, title, author, etc. View materials as a PDF and access from off campus with your FSC username and password.

Browse the shelves
Dental Hygiene materials are located in the RK section of Library of Congress call numbers. Browse circulating materials on the Library's Lower Level, or find reference materials on the First Floor.

RK1-715: Dentistry

RK58-59.3 Practice of dentistry; Dental economics
RK60.7-60.8 Preventive dentistry
RK280 Oral and dental anatomy and physiology
RK301-493 Oral and dental medicine; Pathology; Diseases
RK501-519 Operative dentistry; Restorative dentistry
RK520-528 Orthodontics
RK529-535 Oral surgery
RK641-667 Prosthetic dentistry; Prosthodontics

Note: Call numbers for reserve textbooks are designated by course number, e.g. DEN 105. Request these books at the Circulation Desk.

More Library Resources
Models of teeth are available to check out at the Circulation Desk. Use these materials for up to two hours in the Library.

Websites

Below are selected websites which feature authoritative Dental Hygiene and health related content.

MedlinePlus
Reliable and up-to-date health information from the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Includes directories, medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, extensive content on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Dental Hygiene related content includes mouth and teeth topics.

Merck Manual
One of the most widely used comprehensive medical resources for professionals and consumers. Includes information on many medical topics and drugs. Updated on a regular basis by contributors who are experts in their fields.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Oral Health
Data and statistics, reports, full-text journal articles, information about community oral health programs, and other dental related topics.

New York State Department of Health: Oral Health
Oral health care information, New York State health reports, data and statistics

PubMed.gov
Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books via the US National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. Citations may include links to full-text articles.

Cochrane
Summaries of research studies and news articles in the fields of health and medicine. Content is contributed by leaders in health research around the world.

National Center for Dental Hygiene Research and Practice (DHNet)
Links to online resources supporting dental hygiene education, practice, and research. Maintained by the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California.

Healthypeople.gov
Health information from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Includes national data for a number of oral health topics.

MouthHealthy
Consumer oral health information from the American Dental Association.

Citing Sources in MLA Style

See below for basic guidelines and examples of MLA citation style. See the “Citation Help” section for more details, examples, and sample MLA papers.

Why Cite?

Why you need to cite sources:

• Citing sources is the only way to use other people’s work without plagiarizing (i.e. if you are using any resource [journal article, book, website, report, interview, etc.], you NEED to give credit to the original source).
• The readers of your work need citations to learn more about your ideas and where they came from.
• Citing sources shows the amount of research you’ve done.
• Citing sources strengthens your work by lending outside support to your ideas.

In-Text Citations

In-text citations give credit to sources in the body of your paper. Use in-text citations when paraphrasing, directly quoting, or using ideas from sources.

• MLA citation style uses the author-page method for in-text citations: Author(s)’ last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text.
• Last names may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.

 

In-Text Citation Examples

Example 1. Writers should ask questions that will result in interesting answers (Zinsser 100). 
Example 2. Zinsser notes that writers should ask questions about interesting experiences in their subjects' lives (100). 
Example 3. Writers should ask their subjects "questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives" (Zinsser 100). 

In-Text Citations vs. Works Cited Page

In text citations are brief, providing only some information about the resource being referenced. These citations must match up to a full citation in the Works Cited page. 
In text citations show readers where to find more information, by directing them to an entry in the Works Cited page. The Works Cited page provides much more information about the resource, so readers will be able to locate it and consult the original source. 

Example 1. The above in-text citations correspond to the following full citation, which would appear in the Works Cited page: 
Zinsser, William. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. Harper Collins, 1976. 

Works Cited Page

The Works Cited page lists complete citations which correspond to in-text citations. The word or phrase you use in your in-text citations must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in your Works Cited page.

Formatting

• Separate page labeled “Works Cited,” double-spaced, same margins, etc. as rest of paper.
• Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.

Author Names

• Alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
• Authors' names are inverted (last name, first name; middle name/initial).
• If a work has no known author, use a shortened version of the title.

Capitalization and Punctuation

• Capitalize each word in the titles of articles, books, etc, but do not capitalize articles (the, an), prepositions, or conjunctions unless one is the first word of the title or subtitle, e.g. Gone with the Wind.
• Use italics (instead of underlining) for titles of larger works (books, magazines) and quotation marks for titles of shorter works (poems, articles).

Works Cited Page Examples

Book
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example: Zinsser, William. On Writing Well. The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. HarperCollins, 1976.

Scholarly Article
Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, volume number, issue number, Date Month Year,
pages, Database, DOI or URL.
Note: include the URL if there is no DOI
Example: Matsumura, Lindsay Clare, et al. "Classroom Writing Tasks and Students' Analytic Text-Based Writing" Reading
Research Quarterlr, vol. 50, no. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2015, pp. 417-38. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson), doi:10. 1002/rrq.110.

A Page on a Website / Web document
List as much of the following information as possible (you sometimes have to hunt around to find the information).
Author Last Name, First Name/Organization. ''Title of Page" Name of Website, Date of Publication, URL, Date Accessed.
Example: Rodburg, Maxi ne, and Tutors of the Writing Center at Harvard University. "Developing a Thesis." Harvard University,
1999, writingcenter.fas harvard edu/pages/developing-thesis. Accessed 20 Mar. 2017.

Newspaper Article
Author (s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical, Day Month Year, pages
Example:  Fani, Anthony "Tips For College Students Searching For Internships" Philadelphia Tribune, 18 Oct. 2016, p. 14.

NoodleTools

Access NoodleTools

NoodleTools is a citation manager that can help you generate and format citations correctly.

• Select the type of resource you are citing (article, book, website, etc.) and NoodleTools will prompt you to enter required information. A citation is then generated in your selected format (MLA).
• NoodleTools requires an account, so every time you log in your citations will be saved for you.
• When you are finished entering information, a reference list can be generated for you and exported to MS Word or Google Docs.

Citation Help

For more details and examples of MLA citation style, visit the following websites:

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • MLA Formatting and Style Guide
  • MLA Paper Format
  • MLA Sample Paper
• The MLA Style Center
• The Writer’s Handbook: MLA Documentation Guide (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Plagiarism.org: How Do I Cite Sources?

 

Associations

American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA)
National Dental Hygienists Association (NDHA)
International Federation of Dental Hygienists (IFDH)
American Dental Association (ADA)