Healthy Santa Cruz County - teeth

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Dental Care
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer help or further information about dentistry or dental practitioners in this area. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: dental care, local information, teeth

Library Resources

• Find Books: Dental Care
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about dental care and hygiene. Use this link to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, dental care, teeth

Recommended Websites

• American Dental Association
  Special features: Oral health topics A-Z; find-a-dentist; animation and games; Spanish available. From: American Dental Association.
  Browse related subjects: dental care, healthy lifestyle, recommended website, teeth
• Dental Health - MedlinePlus
  Special features: News updates; links to special topics by age group; Spanish and easy-to-read available. From: NLM / NIH.
  Browse related subjects: dental care, MedlinePlus, recommended website, teeth
• Oral Health Topics AtoZ
  Special Features: Comprehensive, understandable coverage of oral health topics; all available in Spanish. Animations and games, plus online version of "Visit the Dentist with Marty," a story to help prepare children for their first dental visit. From: American Dental Association.
  Browse related subjects: dental care, recommended website, teeth

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.
• MEDLINE® PubMed
  PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes citations and abstracts from MEDLINE, the world's largest database of clinical medical literature. The database indexes more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Citations date back to the 1950s. Some citations link out to relevant information outside of Medline, or to the full text of articles. Tutorials are available and highly recommended for inexperienced users.