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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Summer 2017
- Course Number:
- DH 204
- Course Title:
- Dental Hygiene Practice IV
- Credit Hours:
- 5
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 150
Course Description
Addendum to Course Description
Competency Skill Levels: DH Program basic skill competencies #'s 1-12 are addressed at the introductory and developing skill levels.
Intended Outcomes for the course
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Provide assessment, periodontal diagnosis, care planning, implementation of treatment and treatment evaluation techniques for the patient with oral disease
Outcome Assessment Strategies
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Create a dental hygiene treatment care plan appropriate for non-surgical periodontal therapy.
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Create a nutritional diet for a periodontally involved patient.
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Midterm and final exams
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Complete clinical requirements at 75% or greater accuracy.
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Satisfactorily complete a clinical test case.
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Attend all clinic bay meetings, documentation meetings and clinical sessions unless excused.
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Using reflective learning techniques, maintain a weekly journal.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
The periodontal patient
Assessment and care planning
Treatment options and sequencing
Non-surgical periodontal therapy
Self-care
Nutritional analysis for dental health
New treatments, products and innovations.
Ultrasonic/sonic instrumentation
Irrigation therapy
Evaluation and maintenance care
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
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Describe treatment sequencing for optimum patient care.
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Explain the medical emergency protocols for the PCC clinic.
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Recognize and assess the value of various new developments in dental hygiene care.
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Explain the factors and considerations that must go into treatment planning for the periodontal patient.
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Discuss the theory, operation, maintenance and precautions associated with use of ultrasonic/sonic instruments.
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Compare and contrast hand-instrumentation and sonic/ultrasonic scaling.
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Compare and contrast irrigation therapy products and systems.
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Discuss nutritional concepts and their relationship to dental health.
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欧洲杯决赛竞猜app_欧洲杯足球网-投注|官网 a food survey plan for use by a clinic patient.
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Discuss patient management principles and problems associated with the periodontal patient.
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Discuss possible reasons for modifying an established treatment plan.
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Participate in classroom discussions of clinic problems, concern and share cases for peer review
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Provide safe, effective clinical care for periodontally involved patients at a introductory level.
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Demonstrate the ability to collect data for assessment, synthesize the data to form a dental hygiene diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for a variety of clinic patients at the developmental level.