Preventive Dentistry & Public Health

Catalog description

The course is an introduction to the current principals and issues in community health and preventive dentistry and their relationship to the delivery of dental care to the public. This course will build a foundation in community education, health promotion and disease prevention, and focus on community management through principals of program planning, process of care, epidemiology, health care delivery, biostatistics and research. At the completion of the course the student will be able to demonstrate orally and in writing the principles of primary preventive dentistry and dental public health, the role of the Dental Hygienist in providing Dental Hygiene Care by developing skills appropriate to the assessment, planning, implementing and evaluation of community dental health programs and issues. (Prerequisites: Principles of Dental Hygiene II Lecture and Clinic) (Fall)