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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- DA 110
- Course Title:
- Introductory Concepts in Dental Procedures
- Credit Hours:
- 2.5
- Lecture Hours:
- 25
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Introduces the theory behind the clinical aspects of dental assisting duties and responsibilities. Includes four-handed dentistry concepts, restorative procedures, nutrition, and oral health care for the dental patient. Covers proper protocol regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the patient record.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Identify the steps needed to gather and document accurate patient information, vital signs, and procedures while following appropriate HIPAA protocols.
- Describe the foundation of clinical dentistry including four-handed dentistry and moisture control.
- Differentiate between amalgam and composite armamentarium, instrumentation, and post-operative instructions.
- Differentiate between topical, local, general anesthesia, and nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation as it relates to dentistry.
- Identify the different armamentarium used in general dentistry and their uses.
- Identify how nutrition relates to oral and general health.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Complete textbook and classroom assignments
- Demonstrate understanding though the completion of quizzes, a midterm, and a final examination
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
- Dental assisting clinical duties
- Professionalism
- Communication
Concepts:
- Chart documentation
- Vital signs
- HIPAA
- Four-handed dentistry
- Moisture control
- Ergonomics
- Oral evacuations
- Rubber dam
- Restorative and aesthetic dentistry
- Cavity preparation
- Simple vs. complex restorations
- Restorative procedures
- Restorative armamentarium
- Restorative instruments
- Post-operative instructions
- Operatory preparation
- Anesthesia
- Handpieces and burs
- Six key nutrients and their functions
- Recommended Dietary Allowances
- Oral care
Issues:
- Time management
- Organization
Skills:
- Identify the steps to take vital signs on a patient
- Explain the importance of maintaining patient privacy
- Identify four-handed dentistry techniques and ergonomic positioning
- Identify effective moisture control techniques
- Differentiate between restorative and aesthetic dentistry
- Identify proper armamentarium needed for different types of restorations
- Differentiate between amalgam and composite procedures
- Identify restorative instruments
- Differentiate the proper post-operative instructions for each procedure
- Identify the different types of anesthetic used
- Identify the different types of handpieces and burs used in general dentistry
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 3- Identify the steps needed to gather and document accurate patient information, vital signs measurements, and procedures while following appropriate HIPAA protocols+
- Differentiate between topical, local, general anesthesia, and nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation as it relates to dentistry.
- Identify how nutrition relates to oral and general health.
- Discuss normal vital sign readings for patients
- Discuss anesthetic ratios
- Discuss total amount of nitrous and the nitrous/oxygen ratios a patient may receive during a procedure
- Compute the total amount of nitrous oxide given to a patient during a procedure
- Calculate nitrous/oxygen ratios for proper documentation in patient's chart
Human Relations
Hours: 3Differentiate between amalgam and composite armamentarium, instrumentation, and post-operative instructions
Perform as a team during instrument identification and classroom presentation projects on basic dental assisting topics, utilizing team building concepts.