Burt and Eklund’s Dentistry, Dental Practice, and the Community 7th Edition

Your Essential Guide to Community Dental Health: A Revised and Updated 7th Edition

Burt and Eklund's Dentistry, Dental Practice, and the Community, 7th Edition, is your guide to the challenges, trends, and positive role you can play in improving community dental health. This completely revised text presents dentistry against a backdrop of ever-changing economic, technological, and demographic trends, equipping you with the latest research techniques and the knowledge to make a difference.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Organization: A logical four-part organization covers dentistry and the community, dental care delivery, methods and measurement, and health promotion and prevention.

• New Educational Competencies: Addresses new educational competencies for students with updated content on cultural competency, oral health literacy, social responsibility, motivational interviewing, and oral systemic associations.

• New Chapters: Features new chapters on the applications of epidemiology and biostatistics, oral health as it relates to quality of life, health literacy, social determinants of health and health disparities, and the delivery of oral healthcare in Canada.

• Up-to-Date Recommendations: Provides evidence-based recommendations that reflect the latest literature on today’s public health issues.

• Visual Learning: Illustrations, tables, and graphics visually enhance discussions and illustrate key material.

• Focused Content: Emphasizes important core information while providing comprehensive coverage of dental public health.

• Specialty Alignment: Newly revised competencies for the Dental Public Health specialty are incorporated throughout the book.