Dental Instruments

Catalog description

This course consists mostly of conferences and laboratory experiences to enable students in the identification and use of dental instruments. It will also include hand instruments that require manual effort to operate or rotary instruments, which are placed in some type of handpiece or rotary device. Emphasis will be placed in developing skills, such as assembling and maintaining the sequence of instruments on the preset trays, following four handed dentistry principles and infection control protocol. PAXD 2017 - Chairside Assisting and Basic Clinical Procedures. One (1) credit. Co -requisites: PAXD 2010, PAXD 2015, PAXD 2016. This course consists of lectures and laboratory experiences to enable the dental assistant in current concepts of Chairside Assisting and Chairside Clinical Supportive Functions, which are part of general Dentistry procedures. Emphasis will be placed in ap plying current concepts of Chairside Assisting in a modern Dental Office, instruments transfer techniques, and the use of different oral evacuation systems during routine operative and surgical procedures.