COMMUNITY BASED PRIMARY ORAL HEALTH CARE.

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Pre-requisites: admission to the PB Dental Hygiene Practitioner program. Lecture, laboratory, and clinical experiences furthers concept development and skills building for the dental hygiene practitioner student within the context of advance dental therapy practice noting indications for professional referral to provide comprehensive patient care. Complex amalgam and composite tooth preparations and restorations; pre-formed crown preparations and restorations; provisional restorations; preventive mouthguards; uncomplicated primary and permanent tooth exodontia; and pediatric restorative dentistry, atraumatic restorative dentistry, and pulpotomies are performed in a laboratory setting. Clinical rotations offer practice in behavior management; treatment planning; prevention; restorative care; repair of defective removable prosthetics and soft relines; and space maintenance for pediatric and adolescent patients.