Dental Hygiene – Major #4580
The Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) performs oral cancer screenings, provides dental health education, promotes and encourages the preventive aspects of dental care, exposes and processes dental x-rays, removes deposits and stains from teeth, administers local anesthesia, delivers nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia, performs periodontal soft tissue curettage, and assumes responsibilities for preventive care in the dental office.
Courses
- DH 1A — Oral Biology
- DH 3A — Preclinical Dental Hygiene Techniques
- DH 4 — Oral Radiography
- DH 10 — Head and Neck Anatomy
- DH 1B — General and Oral Pathology
- DH 2 — Dental Materials
- DH 5A — Clinical Dental Hygiene I
- DH 6A — Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office
- DH 8A — Patient Management
- DH 11 — Pain Management
- DH 12 — Clinical Seminar Topics I
- DH 1C — Periodontology
- DH 5B — Clinical Dental Hygiene II
- DH 6B — Pharmacology
- DH 7A — Community Dental Health I
- DH 13 — Seminar Topics II, Advanced Instrumentation
- DH 1D — Applied Specialties
- DH 5C — Clinical Dental Hygiene III
- DH 7B — Community Dental Health II
- DH 8B — Practice and Financial Management
- DH 9 — Oral Health Education
- DH 14 — Clinical Seminar Topics III