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2.00 Credits
This course consists of a series of lectures, conferences, and demonstrations emphasizing the pharmaco-dynamics of drug action. This includes modes of administration, mechanisms of action, biotransformation, excretion, drug interactions, and side effects. Special considerations are given to those drugs relevant to the practice of dentistry.
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3.00 Credits
This course educates students regarding the pathologic basis for systemic and oral disease. It includes a consideration of basic principles of pathology as well as specific disease processes. The definition, epidemiology, distribution, morphology, symptoms, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of each disease process is studied.
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2.00 Credits
This course consists of techniques for diet assessment, nutritional counseling and patient management. It is designed to increase the student's skill in developing a comprehensive disease program to treat individual patients. There is a combination of lectures, presentation of abstracts, and discussion of current nutritional issues.
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2.00 Credits
A fundamental lecture course in periodontics with emphasis on a basic understanding of the normal and diseased states of the periodontium. An orientation to the concepts of periodontal examination, charting, diagnosis, treatment planning, root planing, soft tissue curettage, and other surgical therapeutic techniques is presented.
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3.00 Credits
This is a continuation of clinical treatment of patients from Introductory Clinic with the addition of impressions, study casts, root planing, and limited local anesthesia experiences. Scheduled seminars are held to review clinical procedures. Students are assigned to selected departments within the school as well as extramural clinics for observation and participation.
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2.00 Credits
This course provides a working knowledge of metallurgy, ceramics and polymer science. Specific restorative and dental laboratory products are presented and their proper manipulation is described. Laboratory sessions involve experience in handling these materials.
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1.00 Credits
This course presents basic principles of medicine as they relate to patients receiving local anesthesia for dental treatment. Emphasis is on understanding disease processes and medical or pharmacologic treatment of the diseases, rather than on diagnosis of disease. Dental treatment concerns and anesthesia modifications for patients with diseases such as hypertension, asthma, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, diabetes, liver disease, arthritis, and end stage renal disease are covered. The interrelationship of medicine and dentistry is stressed.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides guided direction and practice in reading and interpreting dental literature to enable the student to critically evaluate the reported findings of research studies. It introduces scientific methodology and the use of its attendant statistics, i.e., sample selection, measures of central tendency, measures of variation, tests of significance and correlation coefficients.
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2.00 Credits
A lecture course designed to develop an understanding and knowledge of the various techniques of local anesthesia. The course includes landmarks and relationships of the anatomical structures involved, the chemistry and pharmacology of the local anesthetic solutions, preanesthetic evaluation, and the management of complications and emergencies of local anesthesia. A laboratory/clinical session follows the didactic phase. Competence in administering local anesthesia is evaluated in the Intermediate and Advanced Dental Hygiene Clinical courses.
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2.00 Credits
A lecture course in dental office management. Emphasis is on the use of recall systems, scheduling of patients, bookkeeping procedures, maintaining the appointment book, ordering supplies and equipment, and studying state laws and ethics. An integral part of the course includes principles of human behavior affecting the dental hygienist's relationship with co-workers and patients, the influence of personality types on interpersonal relations, motivation of patients to proper oral health, and preparation for job interviews.
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