The Dental Dexterity Workbook
60 progressive hand-skill drills for dental students
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Your hands are trainable. Train them on purpose.
Dental schools have taught drawing and mirror work for decades, and for good reason: fine motor control, tone control and indirect vision are all learned skills. Most students are left to pick them up by accident.
This workbook makes the practice deliberate. Sixty drills across eight sections, each one scored, each one building on the last - from a 6 mm corridor you cannot miss down to a 0.6 mm corridor you almost certainly will. Ten minutes a day, a sharp pencil, and a number that falls week after week until your hand does what you tell it.
INSIDE
01 Line control - straight strokes, clean starts and stops
02 Arcs and curves - closed forms, matched radii
03 Corridor tracking - accuracy through direction change
04 Pressure and tone - even pressure, clean margins
05 Indirect vision - mirror work, the dental skill
06 Proportion - seeing accurately, then reproducing
07 Fine detail - tolerances under a millimetre
08 Assessment circuits - timed, mixed, repeat monthly
Every drill page carries a self-score box for three dated attempts, and a two-page progress record at the back keeps all sixty error counts on one spread, so progress is a number you can see rather than a feeling.
WHO IT IS FOR
Dental, hygiene and therapy students at any stage. Applicants preparing for a manual dexterity station. Clinicians returning after time away from the chair. No drawing experience needed.
WHAT YOU NEED
A sharp 0.5 mm mechanical pencil with HB lead, an eraser, and a small flat mirror for section 5.
A practice workbook, not a textbook. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any dental school, examining board, registration body or admissions process. It does not teach dental anatomy. Designed and produced with the assistance of AI tools.
A4 paperback, 76 pages.
Détails
- Date de publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Langue
- English
- ISBN
- 9780557848171
- Catégorie
- Médecine & sciences
- Copyright
- Tous droits réservés - Licence de copyright standard
- Contributeurs
- Par (auteur): Northreed Studio
Caractéristiques
- Pages
- 76
- Type de reliure
- Livre à couverture souple Livre à couverture souple
- Couleur de l’intérieur
- Noir & Blanc
- Dimensions
- A4 (8,27 x 11,69 po / 210 x 297 mm)