Essential Skills for Dentists, comprehensively covers all the core skills that a student must master to practice dentistry. The book is divided into three sections; generic skills, discipline specific skills, and integrated skills, this allows students to 'dip into' specific chapters and topics on a stand-alone basis. Overall, this is an invaluable guide to what is expected of undergraduates as they work towards becoming competent, ethical and caring members of our profession. It can also provide a very useful reference for existing practitioners as they seek to appreciate and implement the requirements of clinical governance.