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Dental Hygiene Resources

What dental magazines and journals are at the library?
These titles are all in printed format at the Ft. Steilacoom campus library.  Some have some online features available, too.

Scholarly Journals

  • General Dentistry
    • View the table of contents of the current issue at the publisher's website.  Unfortunately, it's not possible to search through other issues at this time. 
  • Journal of Clinical Periodontology
    • Articles are in print at the library and available online, too.  See the online section below for details of how to access them.  EBSCOhost database carries abstracts for this journal, too.
  • Journal of  Dental Education
    • You can also search the contents of this journal at the publisher's website.  Articles are free online after 12 months.
  • Journal of Periodontology
    • Articles are available in print at the library and online, too.  See the online section  below for details.
  • Journal of Practical Hygiene 
    • The focus is clinical, not research.  This may not qualify as "scholarly" for some assignments.
    • Publisher is updating their website.  Perhaps you'll be able to search the journal in the future.
  • Journal of Public Health Dentistry
    • The journal is in print at the library and articles will be available online soon.  See the online section below for details.
  • Special Care in Dentistry
    • The journal is in print at the library and articles will be available online soon.  See the online section below for details.
Professional Magazines
  • Access
  • ADA News
  • AGD Impact
  • Contemporary Oral Hygiene
  • Dental Economics
  • Dimensions of Dental Hygiene
  • Hygiene Town
  • Modern Hygienist
  • RDH
  • WSDA News
These journals are part of the online library subscriptions:
  • Journal of Clinical Periodontology
  • Journal of Periodontology 
  • Journal of Dentistry for Children (coming soon!)
  • Journal of Public Health Dentistry (coming soon!)
  • Special Care in Dentistry (coming soon!)
To use these journals...
  1. Go to the Pierce College Periodicals list at our Articles and Databases page.  Click the link to the periodicals list  in the BLUE BAR at the top of the page.
  2. Enter the title of the journal in the search box and click the SEARCH button.
  3. Click the Publisher's Website link or database name in the search results for your title.click publisher link
  4. Begin searching the journal.  Each title may work a bit differently depending on the publisher.

Many more are also available in EBSCOhost, ProQuest, PubMed Central, and Health & Wellness Research Center databases at the library's articles and databases web page.


Journals With  FREE Online Articles
  • Journal of the American Dental Association
    • Articles are free after 12 months at the JADA's website.  Full text coverage begins in 1995.
  • Journal of Dental Research
  •  The Open Dentistry Journal
    • This is a peer reviewed online only journal that publishes research studies and literature reviews.  All articles are free.
  • Journal of the Canadian Dental Association
    • Contains many clinical practice articles, a few research studies, and news in the field.  All articles are free.

What library databases should I use to search for dental hygiene articles?

These are the best databases for dental hygiene students. See the Article Database Tips page for tips and details about each database.
  • EBSCOhost (Academic Search Premier)
  • ProQuest
  • PubMed Central (all full text articles)
  • PubMed (many articles aren't full text)
  • Health and Wellness Resource Center
Connect to these at the article databases page at the library. They can be used from on or off campus. When off campus, you'll need your student ID number to connect.enter id number and name


Here are some common trouble spots...
  1. Start at the library's articles and databases page. Please don't go directly to www.proquest.com or any of the other databases.  The college pays a subscription fee for all these, so we need to use an authentication process like the screen you see above.  
  2. Please don't use dashes or spaces in your ID number.
  3. Try the number pad on the right side of your keyboard.  Sometimes this makes a difference!
  4. Do you have a hyphenated or long last name?  Give us a call or email and we'll make sure it's recorded properly in our database.
  5. Are you currently registered as a student?  If not, unfortunately you won't be able to access the databases.
  6. Are you using a computer on the military base?  The military has firewalls in place for extra security.  Try using a non-military computer if one is available.  You are always welcome at the
  7. For help resolving other problems, please contact Laurie Shuster at the email and phone number in the image above or from the bottom of the library home page .    


I can't find any articles. What can I do?
1) Use different words (search terms) in your search.  Try substituting synonyms (children, adolescents, teens) or professional terms (carries instead of cavities). The database, or Google, looks only for the words typed in, not their meaning. These are two very different searches to the computer...

children and cavities and pop
adolescents and carries and soda

2) Try a different database. Each databases will carry journals that the other's don't have.
3) Ask your classmates for ideas about other search terms. Feel free to chat with, call or email a librarian as well.

I also need some books.  Where should I look in the library?

  • Search the library catalog.  At the library home page, click the Books & Videos link at the top left of the page.

  • Take a look in the Reference and Circulating sections of the library.

    • Call Number area RK in either section.

    • You'll find books about prescription medicine, dental anatomy, dental practices, patient care, and more.


I'm a dental hygiene student at Peninsula College. How do I use Pierce College article databases or library books?
Article databases - Peninsula College dental hygiene students can access databases from Pierce and Peninsula Colleges.  Be sure you have your Pierce College student ID number before accessing Pierce databases. These normally begin with 925. Contact the dental hygiene office if you need to locate your student number.
See the library databases section above for more details.
Library books or journals in printed form - You are welcome to use any of our books and journals. The Peninsula Library staff can order these via Interlibrary Loan. See the Peninsula Library web page for specifics.

General Questions


I found a great article on Google, but I have to pay for it. What can I do?

The library may have it in one of our database or in our printed collection on campus. We have thousands of magazines and journals on all topics. If not, we can order from another library by Inter Library Loan (ILL). See the Finding the Full Article page for details about how to quickly search our list of magazines, newspapers and journals.


What is a scholarly journal article?
Essentially, serious periodicals (magazines) written by experts in the field for others who study that field. These aren't geared for the general public. (Scholarly Journals vs Popular Magazines - 3 minute video)

Here is an example from the Journal of Dental Research.  Prediction of secondary caries around tooth-colored restorations: a clinical and microbiological study.  

See the Scholarly Journals page for additional information about what these are and how to tell when you've found one.

How do I cite my sources?
We have details for creating MLA and APA citations at the library web page.