Dental Hygienists - Workplace

  • Brown, Jackson L., Donald R. House, and Kent D. Nash. 2005. The Economic Aspects of Unsupervised Private Hygiene Practice and Its Impact on Access to Care. Chicago, IL: ADA Press. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
Available: http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/report_hygiene.pdf
“This article reports on a study that analyzed the economic aspects of unsupervised private hygiene practice and its impact on access to care.”
 
  • Jevack, Julia E., Rebecca S. Wilder, Ginger Mann, and Ronald J. Hunt. Summer 2000. Career satisfaction and job characteristics of dental hygiene master’s degree graduates. Journal of Dental Hygiene 74(3): 219–29.
 
“The primary objectives of this study were to assess career and degree satisfaction as well as job characteristics of individuals graduating from programs awarding the Master of Science in dental hygiene or dental hygiene education degree.”
 
  • Rowe, Dorothy J., Jane A. Weintraub, Sara Shain, Judy Yamamoto, et al. January 2004. Outcomes assessment related to professional growth and achievements of baccalaureate dental hygiene graduates. Journal of Dental Education 68(1): 35–43. [Online, accessed 11/20/06.]
 
Available:http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/reprint/68/1/35?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexactfulltext=
and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=68&firstpage=
35&resourcetype=HWCIT
“The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the goals of the [entry-level baccalaureate dental hygiene (DH) program at the University of California, San Francisco] were being achieved by assessing the professional growth and achievements of the graduates.”