National Board test items are not based on specific textbooks. Test construction committees that develop the Dental Hygiene Examination use, as reference, the latest editions of the following textbooks:
I. Scientific Basis for Dental Hygiene Practice
Basic Science
- Fehrenbach and Herring, Illustrated Anatomy of the Head and Neck, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Phillips, Ralph W., Moore, B. Keith, Elements of Dental Materials, WB Saunders.
- Isben, Olga A.C., Phelan, Joan Andersen, Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Bath-Balogh, Mary., Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy, Elsevier Health Sciences.
Pathology
- Isben and Phelan, Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- DeLong and Burkhart, General and Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Pharmacology
- Gage and Pickett, Mosby’s Dental Drug Reference, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Haveles, Pharmacology for Dental Hygiene Practice, Delmar Learning.
- Pickett and Terezhalmy, Dental Drug Reference with Clinical Implications, Lippincott William & Wilkins.
- Requa-Clark, Applied Pharmacology for the Dental Hygienist, Mosby.
- Wynn, Meiller, and Crossley, Drug Information Handbook for Dentistry, Lexi-Comp.
- Yagiela, Neidle, and Dowd, Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Dentistry, Mosby.
- Pickett and Terezhalmy, Basic Principles of Pharmacology with Dental Hygiene Applications, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
II. Provision of Clinical Dental Hygiene Service
DH Theory and Practice
- Darby and Walsh, Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice, Saunders.
- Wilkins, Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Daniel, Susan J., Harfst, Sherry A., Mosby's Dental Hygiene, Concepts, Cases, and Competencies,
- Clark, Morris S., Brunick, Ann L., Handbook of Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen Sedation, Mosby/Elsevier.
Periodontology
- Newman, Takei, et al., Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Nield-Gehrig, Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation and Advanced Root Instrumentation, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Perry, Beemsterboer, and Taggart, Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist, Saunders.
Radiology
- Haring and Lind, Radiographic Interpretation for the Dental Hygienist, Saunders.
- Johnson and Thomson, Essentials of Dental Radiography for Dental Assistants & Hygienists, Prentice Hall.
- Miles, Van Dis, et al., Radiographic Imaging for Dental Auxiliaries, Saunders.
- Razmus and Williamson, Current Oral and Maxillofacial Imaging, Saunders. White and Pharoah, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation, Elsevier Health Sciences.
Planning and Managing Dental Hygiene Care
- Gladwin and Bagby, Clinical Aspects of Dental Materials: Theory, Practice, and Cases, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Little, Miller, et al., Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, Mosby.
- Phillips and Moore, Elements of Dental Materials, Saunders.
- Craig, Powers, Wataha, Dental Materials: Properties and Manipulation, Mosby.
- Saunders, Stegeman, and Davis, The Dental Hygienist’s Guide to Nutritional Care, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Pickett, Gurenlian, Preventing Medical Emergencies, Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins Zwemer, Mosby’s Dental Dictionary, Mosby.
III. Community Health
- Geurink, Community Oral Health Practice for the Dental Hygienist, Elsevier Health Sciences.
- Mason, Jill Concepts in Dental Public Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- Thomson, Evelyn M. Bauman, Deborah Blythe, Shuman, Deanne, Andrews, Esther K., Case Studies in Dental Hygiene, Pearson Prentice
- Little, James W., Falace, Donald A., Miller, Craig S., Rhodus, Nelson L., Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient, Mosby.
Component B Case-Based Section
The case-based scenarios incorporate the above concepts with the following additional books.
- Daniel, Harfst, and Wilder, Mosby’s Dental Hygiene: Concepts, Cases, and Competencies, Mosby.
- Thomson, Bauman, et al., Case Studies in Dental Hygiene, Prentice Hall.