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Posted: 02/25/08

R State Standard £ Institutionally Developed College: N/A

DHY 105 - Preclinical Dental Hygiene Lab

Course Description

Provides fundamental skills to be utilized in the delivery of optimum patient care by the dental hygienist. Topics include: patient assessment, instrumentation, charting, oral health education, occlusion, and caries.     

Competency Areas	Hours
Patient Assessment	Class	0
Instrumentation	D. Lab	0
Charting	P. Lab/O.B.I.	6
Oral Health Education	Credit	2
Occlusion
Caries

Prerequisite:	DHY 100, DHY 106
Corequisite:	DHY 104

Course Guide

Competency	After completing this section, the student will be able to:	Hours
		Class	D.Lab	P.Lab/ O.B.I.

Patient Assessment		0	0	10
	Demonstrate intra/extraoral examination.
	Perform intraoral and extraoral examinations.
Instrumentation		0	0	30
	Demonstrate periodontal probing and charting.
	Demonstrate fulcrum use.
	Demonstrate instruments and their implementation.
Charting		0	0	10
	Demonstrate oral charting.
	Demonstrate proper documentation.
	Demonstrate dental charting.
Oral Health Education		0	0	5
	Identify oral biofilm, stain, and calcareous deposits.
	Demonstrate caries detection.
Occlusion		0	0	3
	Identify occlusal classification of patients.
Caries		0	0	2
	Demonstrate caries detection and classification.

Suggested Resources

Cooper, M. & Weichmann, L. (2005). Essentials of Dental Hygiene: Preclinical Skills. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Darby, M. & Walsh, M. (2003). Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice. St. Louis, MO: Saunders.

Nield-Gehrig, J. (2007). Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation & Advanced Root Instrumentation. (6^th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Nield-Gehrig, J. (2007). Patient Assessment Tutorials: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Dental Hygienist. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

Wilkins, E. (2005). Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist. (9^th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.