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07/31/03

DEN 146 - Dental Practicum I

Course Description

Practicum focuses on infection control in the dental office and assisting with diagnostic and simple operative procedures. Topics include: infection control procedures, clinical diagnostic procedures and general dentistry procedures.

Competency Areas	Hours
Infection Control Procedures	Class	0
Clinical Diagnostic Procedures	D. Lab	0
General Dentistry Procedures	P. Lab/O.B.I.	6
	Credit	2

Prerequisite:	Pre/Co: AHS 104, DEN 105, DEN 134, DEN 139
Corequisite:

Course Guide

Competency	After completing this section, the student will:	Hours
		Class	D.Lab	P.Lab/ O.B.I.
INFECTION CONTROL PROCEDURES		0	0	20
Infection control procedures	Observe and/or perform appropriate infection control procedures.
CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES		0	0	20
Four-handed dentistry	Observe and/or assist with clinical diagnostic procedures using the concepts of four-handed dentistry.
GENERAL DENTISTRY PROCEDURES		0	0	20
Four-handed dentistry	Observe and/or assist with general dentistry procedures using the concepts of four-handed dentistry.

Suggested Resources

Phinney, Donna and Halstead, Judy (2000). Dental Assisting – A Comprehensive Approach (1^st ed.). Albany: Delmar.

Torres, H. O., & Ehrlich, A. (2002) . Modern Dental Assisting (7^th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders.