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Course: |
DEH 271
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Title: | Clinical Practice III |
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Long Title: | Clinical Practice of Dental Hygiene III |
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Course Description: | Continues patient care session with emphasis on attaining a level of competency and efficiency for successful performance in clinical board exams and private practice. Focuses on clinical skill development in tobacco cessation, product selection, patient communications, curettage and special topics developed patient treatments. Provides elective extra-mural clinical sites for additional practice. |
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Min Credit: | 1 |
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Max Credit: | 8 |
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Status Notes: | Replaces DEH 203L at CNCC; Replaces DEH 224 at PCC; |
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| S: Replaces DEH 252 at CCD |
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| S: 9/28/04 - changed from DEH 284 |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Identify, assess, treat and re-eval additional perio cases. Demonstrate application of the reevaluation process to three month re-evals of such cases.
II. Demonstrate developed skills in the process of self-critique of clinical skills and develop problem solving, as demonstrated in treatment planning and patient management.
III. Demonstrate dental hygiene treatment for prescribed levels of difficulty with predetermined time and skill parameters for effective transfer to applied clinical settings
IV. Demonstrate competency in ergonomic principles for effective transfer to applied clinical settings
V. Demonstrate additional competencies in advanced periodontal hand and powered scaler instrumentation
VI. Provide hand and powered oral irrigation
VII. Demonstrate clinical applications for ethical behavior, confidentiality and decision making
VIII. Participate in providing dental hygiene treatment in extramural and or special patient clinical cases.
IX. Participate in Mock Board clinical exercises and associated
X screening and radiographic clinical activities for regional
XI. board examinations
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Topics depend on patient population at educational site, but do include patient requirements for light, moderate, and heavy patients; and auxiliary procedures as outlined in competencies
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