This four-volume student text is designed for use by Air Force personnel enrolled in a self-study extension course for dental assistant specialists. Covered in the individual volumes are an introduction to dental services (the mission and organization of medical/dental service, career ladder progressions, medical readiness/wartime training, and Air Force occupational safety and health); basic sciences (dental anatomy, physiology, and histology; oral pathology; dental materials; and dental therapeutics); administrative functions and chairside assisting (dental administration, publications and dental supply, dental instruments, housekeeping and equipment maintenance, professional standards and general assisting procedures, and specialty assisting procedures); and dental radiology and preventive dentistry). Each volume in the set contains a series of lessons, exercises at the end of each lesson, a bibliography, and answers to the exercises. Supplementary volume review exercises, series of foldouts, and a change supplement are also provided. (MN)