Savvy Success

SAVVY SUCCESS

Achieving Professional Excellence and Career Satisfaction
in the Dental Hygiene Profession
Volume III: Technology-Ethics-Career Success

Volume III: Technology-Ethics-Career Success covers new trends occurring in practice
to help dental hygienists in time management and efficiency in their positions; use of
technology such as digital radiography in practice; trends in polishing practices; the oralsystemic
link and its connection to overall wellness; the use of teledentistry to care for
access to care populations; ethical decision making; risk management; medical emergencies
and tobacco cessation. The seventh unit of Volume III is on Dental Hygiene and Securing
Career Satisfaction. Volume III concludes with the importance of lifelong learning;
balancing work and personal life; and dental hygiene and career satisfaction focuses on
insights that I and other dental hygienists I have interviewed provide on how to achieve
career satisfaction and what skills and attributes can assist dental hygienists in reaching
this level of happiness and success in their professional careers

Glossary of Terms, Index and Appendix in each of the 3 textbooks, Volume I-III of SAVVY SUCCESS includes a Glossary of Terms which defines key terms utilized in the chapters included in each textbook that students, faculty members and practicing dental hygienists can review to define these key words. An index is also included in the three volumes. In Volume III of SAVVY SUCCESS an appendix is included which highlights information from the Chapter 41 author on the ADHA Code of Ethics.