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Dental Hygiene: Finding Articles

A guide to research for dental hygiene students.

Find Scholarly Dental Articles

Recommended Databases for Research

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains articles from nursing, medical and allied health journals; includes Pre-CINAHL, CINAHL and CINAHL Plus with full text.

PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's interface for searching Medline. Journal articles for all areas of medicine, dentistry and nursing. Limited full text

Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
Clinical point-of-care resource. Includes full text content on diseases, disorders, diagnostics, drugs, patient education resources, and best practice guidelines. Also includes continuing education modules, legal cases, and medical news and drug updates.

Health & Medical Collection (Proquest)
Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFIle)
Contains the full-text of nursing and allied health journals providing reliable health information to nursing and allied health students, professionals, and researchers.

Drugs and Medications

LexiComp Online This link opens in a new window
Provides point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, and clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database, and other tools.

Mosby's Dental Drug Reference
Reference Book in the Library for your use.

How to Search in CINAHL

Here is a 3 minute basic searching tutorial. Ask a Librarian if you'd like more help.