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Dec 26, 2024
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DHY 171 - Principles of Dental Hyg Pract Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Open See DHY 170 . Prerequisite: BIO 164 , CHM 122 . Corequisite: DHY 170 Competencies
- Demonstrate actions in accordance with standards of personal and professional accountability
- Focus on goals set for becoming a professional
- Accept responsibility for engaging in activities that will promote success in achieving professional and personal goals
- Evaluate if you are becoming the sort of person you have chosen to be and become in terms of the values that human life supports across a broad range of human experiences (intrinsic values), and in terms of the obligations that a dental professional under
- Prepare the clinical site, clinician, and patient
- Identify, operate and/or adjust the dental chair, unit, light, stool
- Identify basic maintenance procedures to improve longevity, cleanliness and appearance of the components of the dental operatory
- Follow current CDC recommendations and OSHA standards for control of contamination and biohazardous materials
- Apply product information regarding health and physical hazards in Material Data Safety Sheets (MSDS) to product utilization in the dental setting
- Begin to analyze data in the patient medical and dental history in preparation for interview and treatment
- Conduct patient assessment to provide baseline information for determining the general and oral health status of each patient
- Utilize interviewing techniques that ensure a thorough health history
- Gather information regarding the patient’s perspectives (wants, needs, and expectations).
- Adopt language patterns that reinforce that the patient is a partner in care
- Obtain patient’s vital signs
- Conduct an intraoral and extraoral examination identifying normal and abnormal structures
- Implement safe, effective, non-traumatic clinical dental hygiene techniques
- Demonstrate, given a typodont or partner
- Identify dull instruments and utilize basic principles of instrument sharpening
- Consider the variables of gingival condition, deposit characteristics, tooth morphology in order to begin to
- Demonstrate proficiency within prescribed error margins
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