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Aug 31, 2024
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DHY 292 - Clinical Dental Hygiene III Credits: 5 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 15 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Open See DHY 291 . Prerequisite: DHY 281 , DHY 282 . Corequisite: DHY 291 Competencies
- Demonstrate previous practicum competencies with progressive independence, greater efficiency, and confidence
- Demonstrate actions in accordance with standards of personal and professional accountability
- Implement safe, effective, non-traumatic clinical dental hygiene techniques in order to achieve and/or maintain the patient’s optimal oral health
- Detect and remove all supragingival deposits for all Deposit Classifications
- Detect and remove all subgingival deposits for Deposit Classification II
- Detect and remove most subgingival deposits for Deposit Classification III, IV, and V
- Perform correctly the following additional adjunct service when appropriate
- Apply current research to preventive and treatment modalities
- Identify patients with special needs for whom dental hygiene care is modified
- Demonstrate basic instrumentation skills with all instruments
- Modify basic techniques based on patient variables
- Produce, evaluate, interpret, and utilize all radiographs
- Produce a written preventive treatment plan to meet the needs of each patient
- Assemble assessment data from a variety of patient cases (including medical history, vital signs, intraoral and extraoral examinations and chartings, radiographic surveys, diagnostic casts, and the patient’s expectations).
- Identify priorities for treatment including
- Design a treatment plan best suited to the specific needs of each patient based on the established dental hygiene diagnosis
- Include in the case presentation for each patient (1) the legal requirements of informed consent and (2) the basic principles of interpersonal communication
- Complete a logical sequence of planned appointments to facilitate the outcomes for each case
- Implement efficient treatment and modify treatment plan as necessary
- Evaluate treatment outcomes and identify need for additional supportive therapy
- Demonstrate the ability to apply the ethical decision-making process when confronted with an ethical dilemma
- Recognize the business aspects of the dental office: appointment book management, financial records, telephone communication, dental insurance
- Demonstrate increasing proficiency within prescribed error margins
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