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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to dental hygiene clinical techniques and clinical practice. This course provides didactic instruction on patient medical history and data gathering, sterilization, infection control protocol, comprehensive patient treatment to include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of selective services. Corequisite(s): DEHY1480, DEHY1424 (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to continue the student's education in the basic dental hygiene sciences with an emphasis on dental health education, primary preventive measures, and nutritional educational counseling. The course emphasizes the special needs of diabetes, mental retardation, therapy, epilepsy and eating disorders. Corequisite(s): DEHY1482, DEHY1484 Prerequisite(s): DEHY1400, DEHY1480 (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Clinical Seminar II (DEHY 1402) with emphasis on advanced dental hygiene skills, client relations and special needs. The course includes didactic study of treatment planning, oral health care adjuncts, root planing techniques, powered scaling, sealants, dental materials, implant care and care for the client who is medically compromised. Corequisite(s): DEHY1420, DEHY1486 Prerequisite(s): DEHY1402, DEHY1482 (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of DEHY 1404 with continuing focus on care of the client with special needs, and continuing with emphasis on dental hygiene research, leadership, management, ethics and jurisprudence in dentistry, new products, consumer awareness and the role of the dental hygienist in alternative care settings. Corequisite(s): DEHY1488 Prerequisite(s): DEHY1404, DEHY1486 (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/lab course is designed to provide the dental hygiene student with information required to facilitate the optimal selection, handling, placement and care of the materials used in dentistry. Topics covered include cements, varnishes, liners, esthetic anterior restorations, posterior restorations, sealants, impression materials, dental stone and plaster, polymers for prosthetics, and provisional restorations. Students will work with dental materials and typodonts in the laboratory setting. (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This lecture/laboratory course provides dental hygiene students with the knowledge of radiographic principles and exposure techniques. Course content includes theoretical concepts of radiation, radiation safety and monitoring, infection control, x-ray film, processing and mounting, operation of the x-ray unit, intraoral and extraoral radiographic techniques, anatomical landmarks, and exposing and processing errors. The laboratory portion of the course will prepare the student to demonstrate competence in exposing radiographs using the bisecting and paralleling techniques. Students will practice taking radiographs on phantoms, skulls and DXTTR. (2 C: 1 lect/pres, 1 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the student to materials and techniques utilized in clinical situations. The laboratory portion covers sealants, amalgams, impressions, study models, sonics/ultrasonics, prophy jet polisher, dental records and treatment planning. All topics will be taught to lab competency. Some sections of the lab will be devoted to pain management methods in coordination with DEHY 1468. Prerequisite(s): DEHY1484, DEHY1402 (2 C: 0 lect/pres, 2 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers a survey of drug groups with special emphasis on the drugs used in dentistry. This course will include content in the following: physical, and chemical properties of drugs, modes of administration, therapeutic and adverse effects, and drug interactions. Identifying and managing clinical emergencies is also included. (2 C: 2 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the anatomical components and functions of head, neck, teeth and supporting structures. Emphasis will be on the skeletal, muscular, nervous, venous and masticatory systems. The course includes comparative study of the deciduous and permanent teeth. (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers concepts of the embryological development of orofacial organs and structures. (1 C: 1 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
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