Links & References

A Pollution Prevention Perspective

The project team found information about dental chemicals in a number of sources: Published reference textbooks; dental society journals (some of which are on-line); peer-reviewed technical research papers; government websites; vendor literature; and trade publications and websites.

A selection of these reference sources are highlighted here. The reader is cautioned that this listing is meant to be illustrative only. Inclusion or exclusion of a particular book, organization, website, or vendor is not to be interpreted as either an endorsement or non-endorsement by the project team or its sponsors.

We suggest the following strategy to anyone wishing to research a new area of dentistry:

[1] start with online searching;
[2] identify key authors, publishers, and dental society working groups that are active in your interest area;
[3] read the readily available web-published materials;
[4] develop a list of your unanswered questions;
[5] approach the key authors with these questions; and
[6] read the new materials that these sources recommend to you.

Reference Books

1. Craig, Robert, and J. Powers, Restorative Dental Materials, 11th ed., Mosby/Elseivier, St. Louis, 2002.
   
2. Van Noort, Richard, Introduction to Dental Materials, 2nd ed., Mosby/Elseivier, St. Louis, 2002.

Dental Society Journals

1. Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)
   http://www.ada.org/
   
2. Journal of the California Dental Association
   http://www.cda.org
   
3. Journal of the Canadian Dental Association
   http://www.cda-adc.ca/

Peer-Reviewed and Other Technical Literature

1. Environmental Health Perspectives
   http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/allpubs.html
   
2. Crane / CRA
   http://www.cranews.com/index.htm
   
3. DentalArticles.Com This website leads the researcher into prepared searches in PubMed.
   http://www.dentalarticles.com/
   
4. Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures
   http://www.osap.org/index.cfm
   
5. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
   http://www.apic.org/

Government Websites

1. Center for Disease Control - Search for "Dental" or similar key words
   http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
   
2. Toxnet
   http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
   
3. PubMed
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html
   
4. Navy Environmental Health Center
   http://www-nehc.med.navy.mil/
   
5. US Dept. of Labor - OSHA
   http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/dentistry/index.html

Vendor Literature

1. Bisco, Inc., Research Reports
   http://www.bisco.com/rp/
   
2. Sullivan-Schein
   http://www.henryschein.com/Browse.asp
   
3. Patterson Dental
   https://www.pattersondental.com/app.aspx

Trade Press

1. Pennwell - Publishers of "Dental Economics", "Woman Dentist Journal", and others
   http://de.pennnet.com/home.cfm
   
2. DentalResources.com
   http://www.dental-resources.com/bookart2.html

Revised: November 2005