Dental Assisting: Find Articles

"AND"

Use AND to narrow your search. All keywords will be present in the results.

"OR"

Use OR to broaden your search by connecting synonyms. Any keyword may be included in your results.

"NOT"

Use NOT to narrow your search by excluding results. Records with keywords will be removed from your results.

"NESTING"

Nesting is a way to combine several search statements into one comprehensive search statement. Use parentheses ( ) to separate keywords when you are using more than one operator (AND, OR , NOT) and three or more keywords (synonyms). Searches within parentheses are performed first and operations proceed from left to right. For example, diet therapy AND (bulimia OR anorexia) will retrieve records containing the two concepts, Bulimia + Diet Therapy, or the two concepts, Anorexia + Diet Therapy, or records that contain all three concepts, Bulimia + Diet Therapy + Anorexia. 

Use " " (phrase searching) to search for any phrase that you want to find (i.e.: "physical therapy")