Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Competency Skill Levels:  DH Program basic skill competencies #'s 1-12 are addressed at the introductory and developing skill levels.

• Provide assessment, periodontal diagnosis, care planning, implementation of treatment and treatment evaluation techniques for the patient with oral disease

• Create a dental hygiene treatment care plan appropriate for non-surgical periodontal therapy.

• Create a nutritional diet for a periodontally involved patient.

• Midterm and final exams

• Complete clinical requirements at 75% or greater accuracy.

• Satisfactorily complete a clinical test case.

• Attend all clinic bay meetings, documentation meetings and clinical sessions unless excused.

• Using reflective learning techniques, maintain a weekly journal.

The periodontal patient
Assessment and care planning
Treatment options and sequencing
Non-surgical periodontal therapy
Self-care
Nutritional analysis for dental health
New treatments, products and innovations.
Ultrasonic/sonic instrumentation
Irrigation therapy
Evaluation and maintenance care

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Describe treatment sequencing for optimum patient care.

• Explain the medical emergency protocols for the PCC clinic.

• Recognize and assess the value of various new developments in dental hygiene care.

• Explain the factors and considerations that must go into treatment planning for the periodontal patient.

• Discuss the theory, operation, maintenance and precautions associated with use of ultrasonic/sonic instruments.

• Compare and contrast hand-instrumentation and sonic/ultrasonic scaling.

• Compare and contrast irrigation therapy products and systems.

• Discuss nutritional concepts and their relationship to dental health.

• Develop a food survey plan for use by a clinic patient.

• Discuss patient management principles and problems associated with the periodontal patient.

• Discuss possible reasons for modifying an established treatment plan.

• Participate in classroom discussions of clinic problems, concern and share cases for peer review

• Provide safe, effective clinical care for periodontally involved patients at a introductory level.

• Demonstrate the ability to collect data for assessment, synthesize the data to form a dental hygiene diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for a variety of clinic patients at the developmental level.