CCOG for DA 110 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- DA 110
- Course Title:
- Introductory Concepts in Dental Procedures
- Credit Hours:
- 2.5
- Lecture Hours:
- 25
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Introduces the theory behind the clinical aspects of dental assisting duties and responsibilities. Includes four-handed dentistry concepts, restorative procedures, nutrition, and oral health care for the dental patient. Covers proper protocol regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the patient record. Prerequisites: Acceptance in the Dental Assisting program. Corequisites: DA 111 and DA 117.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Identify the steps needed to gather and document accurate patient information, vital signs, and procedures while following appropriate HIPAA protocols.
- Describe the foundation of clinical dentistry including four-handed dentistry and moisture control.
- Differentiate between amalgam and composite armamentarium, instrumentation, and post-operative instructions.
- Differentiate between topical, local, general anesthesia, and nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation as it relates to dentistry.
- Identify the different armamentarium used in general dentistry and their uses.
- Identify how nutrition relates to oral and general health.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Complete textbook and classroom assignments
- Demonstrate understanding though the completion of quizzes, a midterm, and a final examination
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
- Dental assisting clinical duties
- Professionalism
- Communication
Concepts:
- Chart documentation
- Vital signs
- HIPAA
- Four-handed dentistry
- Moisture control
- Ergonomics
- Oral evacuations
- Rubber dam
- Restorative and aesthetic dentistry
- Cavity preparation
- Simple vs. complex restorations
- Restorative procedures
- Restorative armamentarium
- Restorative instruments
- Post-operative instructions
- Operatory preparation
- Anesthesia
- Handpieces and burs
- Six key nutrients and their functions
- Recommended Dietary Allowances
- Oral care
Issues:
- Time management
- Organization
Skills:
- Identify the steps to take vital signs on a patient
- Explain the importance of maintaining patient privacy
- Identify four-handed dentistry techniques and ergonomic positioning
- Identify effective moisture control techniques
- Differentiate between restorative and aesthetic dentistry
- Identify proper armamentarium needed for different types of restorations
- Differentiate between amalgam and composite procedures
- Identify restorative instruments
- Differentiate the proper post-operative instructions for each procedure
- Identify the different types of anesthetic used
- Identify the different types of handpieces and burs used in general dentistry
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 3- Identify the steps needed to gather and document accurate patient information, vital signs measurements, and procedures while following appropriate HIPAA protocols+
- Differentiate between topical, local, general anesthesia, and nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation as it relates to dentistry.
- Identify how nutrition relates to oral and general health.
- Discuss normal vital sign readings for patients
- Discuss anesthetic ratios
- Discuss total amount of nitrous and the nitrous/oxygen ratios a patient may receive during a procedure
- Compute the total amount of nitrous oxide given to a patient during a procedure
- Calculate nitrous/oxygen ratios for proper documentation in patient's chart
Human Relations
Hours: 3Differentiate between amalgam and composite armamentarium, instrumentation, and post-operative instructions
Perform as a team during instrument identification and classroom presentation projects on basic dental assisting topics, utilizing team building concepts.