Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting

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Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) - http://jada.ada.org. Searchable database of citations. Selected full-text articles available.
Cochrane Collaboration Library - http://www.cochrane.org. Abstracts only. May be browsed by broad categories (dental abstracts are grouped under Oral Health) or searched by keyword.
DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects). National Institute for Health Research - http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/. Searchable database. Abstracts only
ADA Database of Systematic Reviews. American Dental Association - http://ebd.ada.org/SystematicReviews.aspx. Searchable database. Users may also browse the topical categories on the home page. Summaries only
PubMed. National Center for Biotechnology Information - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. Database searchable by keyword. Most articles are available only as abstracts and citations.
PubMed Central. National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pmc. Extensive database of free fulltext journal articles searchable by keyword, author and title.
PubMed Online Tutorials - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html (tutorials in searching PubMed and accessing its documents)

NOTE: The databases listed above generally only provide abstracts and summaries. Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain the complete articles.

Journal of the American Dental Association - indexed with abstracts in Gale's Health Reference Center and EBSCO's Medline and CINAHL. Also indexed, with some fulltext articles available, on its own web site at http://jada.ada.org.
Journal of Dental Hygiene. Indexed with full-text in Gale's Health Reference Center. Indexed with abstracts in EBSCO's Medline and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Journal of Public Health Dentistry. Indexed with abstracts in EBSCO's Medline.
Journal of Clinical Periodontology. Indexed with abstracts in Gale's Health Reference Center and EBSCO's Medline. Indexed without abstracts in EBSCO's CINAHL.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. Indexed with abstracts in Gale's Health Reference Center and EBSCO's CINAHL and Medline

NOTE: The databases listed above generally only provide abstracts and summaries. Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain the complete articles.

Access the PubMed website
Click on Clinical Queries under PubMed Services in the left sidebar of PubMed's home page.
Click on Find Systematic Reviews
Type your keywords in the search field. The search engine allows Boolean searching but you do not need to add the word AND - the search engine will insert an AND automatically. If you type in "sodium hypochlorite AND root canal" you should get the same number of results as you would if you typed in "sodium hypochlorite root canal."