Clinical Practice I

Catalog description

Pre -requisites: PAXD 2010, PAXD 2015, PAXD 2016, PAXD 2017, AUXD 2025. This course provides the dental assistant the practical clinical experiences related to Chairside Assisting in dental and hospital procedures. The student is also provided with the clinical experiences necessary for exposing and processing intraoral radiog raphs in a variety of patients. Emphasis will be placed on patient management in order to ease performance by better patient -operator relationship. Clinical practice will be performed in dental clinical sites, such as School of Dentistry, program facilitie s, Medical Center, and Veterans Hospital.