Four Handed Dentistry or Mandates and Democracy

Four-Handed Dentistry: A Handbook of Clinical Application and Ergonomic Concepts

Author: Betty Ladley Finkbeiner

Uniquely focused, comprehensive, and extensively illustrated, this review of sit-down, fourhanded dentistry is an ideal how-to manual for the entire dental health team. This book can be used as a brief supplement for dental assisting courses as well as a professional reference for dental practitioners. The emphasis throughout is on the implementation of efficient procedures for a productive, stress-free clinical environment that will improve productivity and reduce strain.

This handbook begins with an overview of the principles of four-handed dentistry and motion economy, treatment room design, types of delivery systems, and basic equipment selection. It then details the basic techniques used to promote ergonomic concepts during routine dental treatment, such as seating, instrument transfer, and oral evacuation.

FEATURES

• Written by a recognized professional who studies four-handed dentistry under the original researchers and who has taught dental assistants, dental students, practicing dentists an hygienists for three decades.
• Unique focus on four-handed dentistry demonstrates how a dentist working with a skilled dental assistant can increase productivity by at least 33%.
• Includes step-by-step procedure boxes for each concept and extensive "how-to" pictures to help readers review techniques and visualize procedures.
• Emphasizes ergonomic clinical practice, from the selection and placement of equipment to executing safe, efficient instrument exchange and oral evacuation techniques.
• Helps readers evaluate existing equipment for ergonomic function.

Booknews

A how-to manual for the dental health team. Begins with an overview of principles of four-handed dentistry, room design, types of delivery systems, and basic equipment selection, then explains techniques used to promote ergonomic principles during routine dental treatment, such as seating, instrument transfer, and oral evacuation. Can be used as a brief supplement for dental assisting courses as well as a professional reference for dental practitioners. Finkbeiner is chairperson of the Dental Assisting Program at Washtenaw Community College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book about: Muzzled or Playing the Enemy

Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America

Author: Susan Carol Stokes

Does it matter when politicians ignore the promises they made and the preferences of their constituents? If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes explores these questions by developing a model of policy switches and then testing it with statistical and qualitative data from Latin American elections over the past two decades. She concludes that politicians may change policies because unpopular policies are best for constituents and hence also will best serve their own political ambitions.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Elections, Mandates, and Representation	1
2	Elections and Economic Policy in Latin America	25
3	Explaining Policy Switches	60
4	Are Parties what's Wrong with Democracy in Latin America?	102
5	Neoliberalism without Mandates: Citizens Respond	122
6	Mandates and Democratic Theory	154
7	Summary, Predictions, Unsettled Questions	185
	References	197
	Author Index	211
	Subject Index	215