The best way to find health research is to search in databases. Databases allow you to search many academic journals at once to find relevant articles. These are some top databases for your area:
Try using words from your assignment topic first (e.g."gum disease").
If you're having trouble finding articles and books that match your topic, try using a more specific technical term (e.g. gingivitis) or adding words to describe what aspect you need (e.g. gingivitis AND treatment, gingivitis AND prevention).
To focus your search further, consider adding a specific patient type to your search (e.g. gingivitis AND prevention AND children).
If you do a search like this in one of the Library's databases (i.e. not with Google)...
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... you'll get results on dairy products as well as deciduous (milk) teeth.
Instead, use quotations to specify that you want to search for those words as a phrase, rather than as separate words.
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Rather than doing separate searches using each of your keywords, you can search for similar keywords by using Boolean operators (and, or, not).
For example, you can search for milk teeth, baby teeth, and deciduous teeth all at the same time by using quotations and 'or'
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This ensures that results with any of these keywords will be retrieved.
