C Clinical Dental Hygiene

Catalog description

Term hours: 27 lecture and 288 laboratory. This is the third in a series of four courses designed to prepare the student for clinical dental hygiene process of care. Lecture and clinical instruction will be applied by experience on clinical patients in the Cypress College Dental Hygiene Clinic facility. An emphasis will be placed on the assimilation and utilization of previous instruction and demonstration of progressive learning. This course also emphasizes the performance of those expanded duties in dental hygiene as allowed by the California State Dental Practice Act, Dental Hygiene Board of California, and the progressive development of professional and managerial skills. $149 materials fee payable at registration. (CSU)