DHYG 401 Dental Hygiene Practice (6 credits)
Course Description
The fourth in the clinical series to further development of application and evaluation of dental hygiene theory and techniques required for the safe, legal, and effective practice of clinical dental hygiene.
Course Content
Evidence-based theory and science of infection and exposure control
Ergonomic body mechanics related to patient and operator positioning.
Developing manual and magnetostrictive dental instrumentation with integration of dental hygiene sciences: grasp, fulcrum, instrument design and identification, adaptation, initiation of motion, proper selection, care and storage (mirror, probe, explorer, sickle scalers, universal curettes, Gracey curettes, files, ultrasonic inserts, etc.)
Advanced instrument sharpening
Dental air and water tip use, care and storage
High and low velocity suction use, care and storage
Patient vital signs; normal and abnormal
Comprehensive health and dental history (including a social, family, medical, medications, etc.)
Extra-oral examination and interpretation
Intra-oral examination and interpretation
Periodontal probing, assessment, and interpretation
Tooth charting
Radiographic technique, evaluation, and interpretation
Caries risk assessment
Periodontal risk assessment
Alterations to care
Occlusion classifications and Angle’s classification of occlusion.
Patient management and referrals (Including fear/anxiety management)
Pain management (local anesthetics and nitrous oxide psychosedation)
Patient oral health self-care assessment and education
Academic and clinical policies and procedures
Legal patient chart entries
Proper use, care and maintenance of the dental unit and related dental equipment
Clinical chairside reference materials
Dental hygiene terminology, vocabulary, and communications
Accurate and ethical self-assessment of clinical patient care and outcomes
Continued content DHYG 301, 311, 321
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Student Outcomes
- Demonstrate correct infection control procedures and processes (safe, legal, and professional responsibility) in the dental hygiene clinical setting.
- Analyze evidence-based theory, ergonomics, and safe dental hygiene instrumentation, pain management, and practice management in the dental hygiene clinical setting on diverse patients across the lifespan with mild to moderate oral disease complexities.
- Identify appropriate evidence-based resources for safe and equitable clinical dental hygiene skills.
- Demonstrate accurate and ethical use of electronic health records, documentation, and collaboratively compose referrals.
- Evaluate patient outcomes with a focus on legal compliance, safety, and skill, as well as appropriate use of clinical reasoning.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene Degree. Please refer to the Dental Hygiene Competency Map for detail of the Program Competencies this course addresses. Each competency is identified at a level of skill by the terms Introductory (I), Developing (D), or Competent (C). The map also shows the alignment between each Program Competency and the Pierce College Core Ability(ies).
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 120
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 120
Potential Methods
Case history
Case studies
Class discussion
Task or clinical proficiencies
Clinical test case
Instructor observations
Lab activity/project
Patient clinical practice
Patient interview
Peer evaluation
Self-evaluation
Instructor evaluation
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Clinical (Acceptable, Improvable, Standard Not Met) AIS Evaluation Criteria
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