DHYG 200 Dental Hygiene Theory and Clinic III

Students will expand on principles and clinical skills of dental hygiene practice. Students will use research, discussions, and professional judgment to provide comprehensive dental hygiene treatment plans. Topics will include root planning, sub-gingival irrigation, ultrasonic use, case presentations, nutritional counseling, and treatment of the special needs patient. Students will conduct oral health services on patient volunteers under direct supervision of a supervising dentist.

Credits

Prerequisite

Admission to the Dental Hygiene program and BIOL 106, DHYG 150, DHYG 208, DHYG 209, and NUTR 211

Corequisite

DHYG 207, DHYG 210, SOCI 101, and SPCH 105

Hours Weekly

2 hours theory, 12 hours clinical weekly

Course Objectives

1. Discuss dental caries management; differentiate between professionally-applied fluorides,
at-home fluorides, and chlorhexidine gluconate 0.12% delivery for dental caries
management.
2. Demonstrate proper pit and fissure sealant placement.
3. Provide nutritional counseling in relation to caries prevention and periodontal disease.
Develop a nutritional plan for one patient.
4. Evaluate a food diary of one patient.
5. Assess oral and systemic effects of tobacco use. Assist patients with tobacco cessation.
6. Use alginate impression material to make dental impressions for the construction of study
casts, mix model plaster to make study models and dental stone to make diagnostic casts
from a dental impression, and trim and finish study models and/or diagnostic casts.
7. Prepare a soft tissue management plan for a periodontal patient.
8. Discuss potential modifications of care for patients with systemic disorders, hormonal
imbalances, emotional disabilities, and those with medication considerations.
9. Describe the components in case development, documentation, and presentation.
10. Choose and develop a case study for a medically compromised patient.
11. Apply desensitizing agents to hypersensitive roots.
12. Prepare and set up armamentarium for local anesthesia.
13. Detect and remove all supragingival and subgingival calculus from the teeth without
traumatizing hard and soft tissues.
14. Complete patient competencies for all patient types (may include class I, class II,
pediatric, geriatric, periodontal, nutritional counseling).

Course Objectives

1. Discuss dental caries management; differentiate between professionally-applied fluorides,
at-home fluorides, and chlorhexidine gluconate 0.12% delivery for dental caries
management.
2. Demonstrate proper pit and fissure sealant placement.
3. Provide nutritional counseling in relation to caries prevention and periodontal disease.
Develop a nutritional plan for one patient.
4. Evaluate a food diary of one patient.
5. Assess oral and systemic effects of tobacco use. Assist patients with tobacco cessation.
6. Use alginate impression material to make dental impressions for the construction of study
casts, mix model plaster to make study models and dental stone to make diagnostic casts
from a dental impression, and trim and finish study models and/or diagnostic casts.
7. Prepare a soft tissue management plan for a periodontal patient.
8. Discuss potential modifications of care for patients with systemic disorders, hormonal
imbalances, emotional disabilities, and those with medication considerations.
9. Describe the components in case development, documentation, and presentation.
10. Choose and develop a case study for a medically compromised patient.
11. Apply desensitizing agents to hypersensitive roots.
12. Prepare and set up armamentarium for local anesthesia.
13. Detect and remove all supragingival and subgingival calculus from the teeth without
traumatizing hard and soft tissues.
14. Complete patient competencies for all patient types (may include class I, class II,
pediatric, geriatric, periodontal, nutritional counseling).