DHYG 227Clinical Practice III

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This course provides students the opportunity to expand on the dental hygiene skills learned in Clinical Practice I and II (DHYG 129 and 130) providing students with a practical and treatment oriented study of oral manifestations of systemic diseases. Students learn and apply advanced instrumentation techniques and deliver comprehensive dental hygiene services in the Fones Dental Health Center as well as in the community setting. Community settings extend opportunities for experience in evolving and expanded patient care with a diverse patient population. Didactic preparation, evidence-based decision making, and clincial application of preventive, educational, and therapeutic services is the common theme throughout the semester. The student will utilize the dental hygiene process of care by assessing clinical information and external research to implement and evaluate the dental hygiene treatment care plan, applying the ADHA Standards of Clinical Dental Hygiene Practice. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all first-year required courses. 2 1/2 lecture hours, 14-21 clinical hours per week, 4.5 semester hours