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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
6 Credits Clinical Dental Hygiene IV is a continuation of DEH-2804C. This course combines advanced clinical activities with previous clinical experience. This is the fourth term for direct patient care, which emphasizes quality patient care, time constraints, and communication skills. Students will continue to perform clinical activities for the prevention of oral disease, including patient assessment, treatment planning, scaling, debridement, root planning, ultrasonics, and air polishing application of preventive agents, oral irrigation and antimicrobial agents, and oral home care instructions. Additional experience will include office management, legal aspects, ethics, dental hygiene practice settings, dentistry and dental hygiene regulation, and general office procedures. Students are required to successfully complete an advanced number of procedures. Prerequisites: DEH-2804C, DES-2934 Corequisites: DEH-1811, DES-2503 Credit for this course does NOT apply to the Associate in Arts degree.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits Same as for DEP 1004 with honors content. Emphasizes developmental and psycho-social growth from conception to death. Topics include Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Erickson's "Eight Ages," the concept of maturitychanging personalities in later adulthood, theories of aging and death and dying. Honors Institute permission required. Prerequisites: College level reading and writing skills are required.
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1.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 1.50 Clock Hours 45.00 A study of the anatomy of the head and neck with emphasis on the maxilla and mandible. In addition, the anatomy of the deciduous and permanent dentitions and supporting structures is covered.
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30.00 Credits
1.00 Vocational Credit Clock Hours 30.00 This laboratory course provides the student an opportunity to use anatomical models and teeth to apply didactic information in a laboratory setting and begin to apply knowledge of anatomy to clinical dental practice.
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30.00 Credits
1.00 Vocational Credit Clock Hours 30.00 A study of agents used in dentistry for local anesthesia and pain control. Nitrous Oxide sedation and its use will be covered.
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0.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 0.50 Clock Hours 15.00 This course is a study of agents used in dentistry for local anesthesia and pain control. Nitrous oxide sedation and its use will be covered.
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1.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 1.50 Clock Hours 45.00 Provides the student with the theoretical knowledge of the composition, preparation, and application of materials commonly used in dentistry.
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1.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 1.50 Clock Hours 45.00 Designed to provide basic knowledge and laboratory practice necessary for the proper manipulation of dental materials commonly employed in dentistry.
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1.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 1.50 Clock Hours 45.00 Provides the student with fundamental knowledge of the nature, physics, and biological effects of radiation to maximize understanding of proper control and safety precautions to be used in exposing, processing, mounting, and evaluating diagnostically acceptable radiographs.
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1.50 Credits
Vocational Credits 1.50 Clock Hours 45.00 A corequisite to Dental Radiography (DES 0200), this course provides the student with laboratory experience in exposing, processing, mounting, and critiquing diagnostically acceptable intraoral and extraoral radiographs.
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