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Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting
Public Databases
- 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.
Journals
- 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.
Finding Systematic Reviews
- 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."
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