CCOG for DH 243 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- DH 243
- Course Title:
- Dental Hygiene Restorative Practice II
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 60
Course Description
Provides comprehensive training in restorative dentistry. Reinforces foundational skills in performing restorative procedures, focusing on hands-on practice in the clinical setting. Covers a range of restorative services, emphasizing the development of essential clinical techniques and patient care skills. Prerequisites: DH 240, DH 241. Corequisites: DH 242.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Perform chairside assisting duties during restorative procedures.
- Record patient consent for restorative procedures.
- Use pain management techniques required for restorative procedures.
- Complete permanent, temporary, and therapeutic restorations as directed by a dentist at the beginner restorative clinician level.
- Assess and adjust occlusion prior to evaluation of final restoration by a dentist at the beginner restorative clinician level.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Formative and summative skill evaluations
Mock board examination
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Concepts and Themes:
- Management of restorative dentistry
- Four-handed dentistry
- Restorative procedures on patients
- Temporary restorations
- Professionalism
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Team Building
Skills:
- Chairside assisting
- Maintenance of a dry working field
- Places bases, liners or varnishes as required
- Places, carves, polishes and finishes amalgam and composite restorations on patients
- Evaluate and adjust occlusion
- Proper handling of restorative sharps and hazardous waste