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2011-2012 Catalog 
    
2011-2012 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

DH 250 - Oral Health Services V


Credit Hours: 5

This course consists of three modules and each module must be passed in order to pass DH 250.  A clinic module will continue patient treatment experiences to strengthen technical skills, planning, time management, self-assessment and critical thinking. Experiences will include the assessment and management of children, adolescents, special needs and geriatric patients, advanced instrumentation techniques, air polishing, chemotherapeutics, intra-oral and extra-oral dental radiography. Students must recruit patients for treatment and recall patients to evaluate treatment outcomes.  A lecture module will concentrate on professional practice topics including the structure of the ADHA, legal aspects of dental hygiene practice, risk management, licensure requirements and procedures, health care provider/patient relationships, ethical dilemmas, resume writing, job interviewing techniques, employee/employer rights and obligations.  Students will work in small groups to research, prepare and present a table clinic on a current topic in dentistry. Another lecture module will present clinically related subjects of emerging interest, topical reviews and dental specialty presentations. Case studies will be utilized as a capstone activity designed to guide the development of critical thinking skills and the application of dental hygiene theory to comprehensive patient care.   Minimum passing grade for the clinic module is “C-” for competency assessments plus completion of specific clinical requirements. Minimum passing grade for lecture modules is “C-.”  
Prerequisites: All fall semester, second-year courses in the Dental Hygiene curriculum must be passed.
Corequisites: All required final-semester courses in the Dental Hygiene curriculum and current BLS certification.
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