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Dental HygieneCredits
Students gain clinical proficiency by providing dental hygiene services to patients. Emphasis is placed on increasing competency in basic dental hygiene skills and comprehensive patient care.
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- Health Science
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This course is designed to equip the dental hygiene student with the skills necessary to navigate the business and administration side of dentistry. A focus on networking, dental procedure codes and insurance protocol will be covered.
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Concepts of Global Citizenship and Intercultural Competency are desired attributes of future health care professionals. Students will self-assess their cultural knowledge in preparation for international travel. Interacting with individuals from different cultural backgrounds will provide the opportunity for students to become aware of their own cultural understanding and improve critical thinking and interpersonal skills. Through travel and experiential learning, the students will begin to develop the capacity to identify, discuss and reflect upon the ethical challenges presented in political, social, and personal lives to understand diverse world views of social justice and common good.
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- Diverse Cultures - Gold
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This course is designed to be a study of the fundamental elements, purposes, and uses of local anesthesia for the dental hygienist.
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The second clinical course in a series where students gain clinical proficiency by providing dental hygiene services to patients. Emphasis is placed on increasing clinical competency in basic dental hygiene skills and comprehensive patient care.
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This course focuses on clinical procedures, educational techniques and legal and ethical issues as they apply to the patient- dental hygiene provider relationship.
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The course is designed to be a study of the fundamental elements, purposes and uses of nitrous oxide sedation in the practice of dental hygiene. This course meets the educational criteria established by the Minnesota Board of Dentistry.
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- Health Science
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This course introduces second year dental hygiene students to the disciplines and basic principles of community dental health, epidemiologic methods and biostatistical measurement analysis. Preventive oral health measures and program development is included to provide a background for the practical application of dental public health methods to the community. This course is an upper division writing intensive course for the traditional dental hygiene program.
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- Writing Intensive
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- Health Science
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This course focuses on legal and ethical issues as they apply to the patient-healthcare provider relationship and legally delegated duties that a licensed dental hygienist may perform. Students will become aware of clinical procedures and educational techniques that will enhance the level of care provided in a clinical setting, issues affecting the patient-healthcare provider relationship, and legally delegated duties of a dental hygienist.
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- Health Science
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Didactic and clinical study of etiology, diagnosis, preventive and therapeutic procedures involved with periodontal disease.
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- Health Science
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This course is designed to prepare the dental hygiene student in the use of new technologies in the modern dental office.
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The final clinical course in a series where students gain clinical proficiency by providing dental hygiene services to patients. Emphasis is placed on preparing for the transition from dental hygiene student to practitioner.
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- Health Science
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This course focuses on preparing dental hygiene students to articulate into the professional workforce. Emphasis is placed on resume writing, interviewing skills, and career options.
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- Health Science
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This course is designed to introduce students to their roles and responsibilities as educators and resource persons by promoting optimal oral health at the community level.
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- Health Science
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The course is designed to provide the dental hygiene practitioner with a survey of common medical disorders that may be encountered in a dental practice. The medical problems are organized to provide a brief overview of the basic disease process, etiology, incidence, prevalence, behavior characteristics, medications and oral manifestations commonly presented by the dental patients. As a result of the accumulation of evidence based research, the dental hygiene practitioner will be provided with an understanding of the disease, recognize the severity of the common medical disorders and make a dental management decision providing the patient with the highest possible level of oral health.
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- Health Science
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The first of two clinical courses designed to utilize the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation process in a community based setting. This course will address efforts to reduce incidence and severity of oral diseases resulting in improved access to community oral health in complex cases.
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- Health Science
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This is the second of two clinical courses designed to utilize the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation process in a community based setting. This course will address efforts to reduce incidence and severity of oral diseases resulting in improved access to community oral health in complex cases.
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- Health Science
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Identify clinical skills and knowledge needed to improve effectiveness as a dental hygienist. Areas addressed: ultrasonic implementation using multiple types of devices, risk factor analysis, comprehensive treatment planning, Periscope (endoscope), carbide/diamond files, advanced instrumentation techniques, patient management, case presentation.
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- Health Science
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Topics included but not be limited to: advanced practice models to expand oral health services, including restorative procedures; counseling regarding smoking cessation; recent medical advances in the field of dentistry and legal and policy issues currently impacting dental hygiene.
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- Health Science
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Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the impact of emerging dental technology. Topics include dental practice software management, digital radiography, intro-oral cameras, patient education software, lasers in dentistry, and internet information sources for both practitioners and patients.
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- Health Science
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Leadership preparation in the delivery of oral health care in the public health model. Emphasis will be placed on defining oral health problems and solutions, community planning, implementation and evaluation based on the oral health objectives of Healthy People 2010.
Leadership preparation in the delivery of oral health care in the public health model. Emphasis will be placed on defining oral health problems and solutions, community planning, implementation and evaluation based on the oral health objectives of Healthy People 2010.
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- Writing Intensive
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- Health Science
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Examines educational methods needed for effective dental hygiene instruction. Topics addressed within this course will include learner and context analysis, performance objectives, assessment instruments, instructional strategies, formative and summative evaluations. Emphasis will be placed on competency based instruction.
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- Health Science
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to first hand experience in providing dental hygiene services through a study abroad opportunity. This course centers on an international week long service learning project in a foreign country. Most of our time and effort will be spent providing dental hygiene treatment. This course will also address ethics, cultural issues, standard of care issues, as well as challenges in providing dental hygiene care in a foreign country.
This course provides a framework for comprehensive patient-centered care using the Human Needs Conceptual Model to prevent oral disease and to promote health and wellness.
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