Dental Hygiene

Below are some carefully selected resources related to the dental hygiene profession as well as links to other helpful online resources.

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Dental Hygiene (AADH)
• American Dental Association (ADA)
• American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA)
• American Student Dental Association (ASDA)
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD)
• American Association of Public Health Dentistry (AAPHD)
• Illinois Dental Hygienists Association
• Indiana Dental Hygienists Association

Other Online Resources

• • Glossary of Dental and Administrative Terms – American Dental Association
  • Prescribers’ Digital Reference – Drug guide
  • Merck Manual – Drug guide with information on health topics
  • Dentistry IQ – Hygiene Department – Articles written with a focus toward dental hygiene students
  • Dentistry Today – Clinical news magazine
  • Hygienetown – Continuing Education (CE) site with online magazine
  • Dental Economics – Focus is on practice management in dental offices. Also includes online version of magazine.
  • Medline Plus – Links to information on diseases, drugs, and organizations. A trusted government resource.
  • Nutrition Research Guide – College of DuPage – Developed by librarians at the College of DuPage, this guide contains links to various government websites related to nutrition.
  • Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews – Under “Cochrane Reviews,” select “Browse by Topic” and then “Dentistry and Oral Health.”
  • PubMed – Comprehensive medical database offered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes abstracts and some full-text articles of many biomedical journals.
  • TRIP Database – Research database focusing on evidence-based medicine (EBM)
  • ClinicalTrials.gov – Searchable database of clinical and private trials
  • DentalCare.com – Research database with articles focusing on ingredients and products manufactured by Crest and Oral-B
  • National Center for Dental Hygiene Research
  • Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry – American Dental Association

Open-Access Articles

Below are links to open-access articles specifically aimed at Dentistry topics.  If you find that PubMed and Google Scholar are not working for you, try this and other databases of full-text articles below for your research.

• Dentistry Commons – Digital Commons Network
• OMICS International Listing of Open Access Journals in Dentistry
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Wiley Online Open-Access Journals  (NEW!!)
• Project Muse  (NEW!!)