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Effective Term:
Summer 2014 through Summer 2024

Course Number:
DH 204B
Course Title:
Dental Hygiene Practice IV
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
120

Course Description

Continues clinical activities to include treating moderate periodontal patients and patients with moderate/heavy deposits; activities will correlate to theory lecture course DH 201.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Provide assessment, periodontal diagnosis, care planning, implementation of treatment and treatment evaluation techniques for the patient with moderate
periodontal disease and moderate/heavy deposits.

Course Activities and Design

Provide patient care for moderate periodontal disease and/or moderate deposits cases.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

· Create a dental hygiene treatment care plan appropriate for non-surgical moderate periodontal therapy cases.
· Create a nutritional diet for a periodontally involved patient.
· Complete clinical requirements at 75% or greater accuracy.
· Satisfactorily complete a clinical test case.
· Attend all clinic bay meetings, documentation meetings and clinical sessions unless excused.
· 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 oral health
New treatments, products and innovations.
Ultrasonic/sonic instrumentation
Irrigation therapy
Evaluation and maintenance care
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
· Describe treatment sequencing for optimum patient care.
· Explain the medical emergency protocols for the PCC clinic.
· Recognize and assess the value of various new developments in dental hygiene care.
· Explain the factors and considerations that must go into treatment planning for the periodontal patient.
· Discuss the theory, operation, maintenance and precautions associated with use of ultrasonic/sonic instruments.
· Compare and contrast hand-instrumentation and sonic/ultrasonic scaling.
· Compare and contrast irrigation therapy products and systems.
· Discuss patient management principles and problems associated with the periodontal patient.
· Discuss possible reasons for modifying an established treatment plan.
· Provide safe, effective clinical care for moderate periodontally involved patients at a developmental level.
· 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.
· Discuss nutritional concepts and their relationship to oral health.
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