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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- DA 115
- Course Title:
- Clinical Procedures Lab III
- Credit Hours:
- 5
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 150
Course Description
Covers advanced clinical training and practical experience in clinical dental assisting duties and responsibilities. Provides an opportunity to work in a clinic setting applying the principles and practices learned in the classroom.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Perform, at an advanced-level (entry-level employment), dental assisting chairside duties while utilizing safe methods and demonstrating professionalism.
- Follow post-operative instructions for various dental procedures and specialty treatments.
- Follow the procedural steps and use the correct armamentarium and instrumentation needed for temporary crown fabrication chairside.
- Demonstrate the delivery of whitening trays and provide post-op instructions.
- Demonstrate the use of an intraoral camera on a patient.
- Identify and chart intraoral dental restorations on a patient.
- Demonstrate the delivery and maintenance care of prosthesis.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Outcomes Assessment Strategies:
- Complete clinic objectives
- Complete practice chart assignments and exercises
- Complete 240 hours in dental office externship
- Complete skill evaluations from externship site
- Complete journal entries from externship
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
- Dental Assisting Clinical Duties
- Professionalism
- Communication
- Teamwork
Concepts:
- Independent, direct patient care
- Removable prosthodontics
- Prosthodontic home care instructions
- Provisional crown
Issues:
- Time management
- Organization
- Self-direction
- Safety
- Critical thinking
Skills:
- Anticipate the needs of the operator while assisting chairside
- Correctly mix, load, and seat an alginate impression tray
- Chart restorations from the patient's radiographs
- Document exam findings, health history updates, vital signs, and services rendered, while at their externship offices
- Educate patients regarding removable appliance home care instructions
- Perform four-handed procedures with increased efficiency
- Fabricate a provisional crown chairside
- Place a dental dam on a patient
Related Instruction
Communication
Hours: 20- Perform, at an advanced-level (employment entry), dental assisting chairside duties while utilizing safe methods and demonstrating professionalism
- Follow post-operative instructions for various general and specialty dental procedures
- Participate in 4-handed dentistry while at their externship and specialty site rotations.
- Deliver instructions to patients denture maintenance and cleaning