CCOG for DA 111 Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- DA 111
- Course Title:
- Introductory Concepts in Dental Procedures (Lab)
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 60
Course Description
Introduces clinical training and practical experience in four-handed dentistry. Includes dental assisting duties and responsibilities. Introduces clinical safety, privacy policies, patient records, restorative procedures, isolation procedures, dental records, disinfection, and sterilization. Prerequisites: Acceptance in the Dental Assisting program. Corequisites: DA 110 and DA 117.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Describe and follow all dental clinic policies and standards related to the dental profession.
- Demonstrate the proper use, preparation, and maintenance of dental equipment and supplies.
- Employ infection control guidelines regarding proper personal protective equipment, sterilization, and disinfection to prevent disease transmission.
- Apply the steps needed to gather and document patient information while following appropriate HIPAA protocols.
- Demonstrate the steps in greeting, seating, and dismissing a dental patient including the review of the health history and gathering of vital signs.
- Assist a dentist chairside during exams and simple restorations while demonstrating proper four-handed dentistry skills, ergonomics, and moisture control techniques.
- Differentiate between composite and amalgam procedure steps, armamentarium, instrumentation, and post-operative instructions for each procedure.
- Demonstrate adequate patient management, teamwork, and collaborative interactions.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Complete weekly clinic objectives, clinic worksheets and assignments
- Complete a clinic final
- Complete practice chart assignments and exercises
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
- Dental Assisting Clinical Duties
- Professionalism
- Communication
- Teamwork
Concepts:
- Standards of Care
- Emergencies
- Dental Equipment/supplies
- Dental Equipment Maintenance
- Sterilization and Disinfection protocols
- Microbiology
- CDC
- OSHA
- Personal protective equipment
- Disease transmission
- Chain of infection
- HIPAA protocols
- Chart documentation
- Services rendered
- Patient communication
- Patient flow
- Health history
- Vital signs
- Four-handed dentistry skills
- Restorative procedures
- Ergonomics
- Preparing anesthetic
- Oral evacuation
- Dental dam
- Restorative instruments
- Handpieces and burs
- Post-operative instructions
Issues:
- Time management
- Organization
- Safety
Skills:
- Identify dental clinic policies and standards
- Identify and appropriately respond to a dental emergency
- Identify dental equipment parts and the maintenance for each
- Prepare an operatory for a dental procedure
- Prepare a handpiece for use chairside and for sterilization
- Properly don and remove personal protective equipment
- Identify the different modes of disease transmission
- Prepare instruments for sterilization
- Disinfect dental equipment
- Identify correct HIPAA protocols
- Review a patient's health history
- Take a patient's vital signs
- Document examination findings, health history findings, vital signs, and services rendered
- Communicate in a professional manner
- Demonstrate the patient flow of a dental appointment
- Prepare a patient for a restorative procedures
- Assemble the different handpieces used in general dentistry
- Demonstrate proper four-handed dentistry skills including passing of instruments and proper use of evacuators and air/water syringe
- Mix and pass dental materials
- Assemble and disassemble anesthetic syringe
- Identify instruments and burs by name and use
- Demonstrate the armamentarium needed and steps involved of an amalgam/composite procedure
- Communicate post-operative instructions
- Apply and remove a dental dam
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 6- Demonstrate the steps in greeting, seating, and dismissing a dental patient, including the review of the health history and gathering of vital signs.
- Assist a dentist chairside during exams and simple restorations while demonstrating proper four-handed dentistry skills, ergonomics, and moisture control techniques. Also includes measuring and mixing dental materials necessary for the procedures.
- Apply knowledge of vital signs to calculate respirations and pulse, prior to beginning a dental procedure on a patient.
- Measure and mix dental materials for chairside use in the dental clinic.
- Chart existing and treatment planned restorations for a clinic patient during an exam procedure.
Communication
Hours: 15- Describe and discuss basic chairside duties utilizing safe methods and professionalism in the PCC Dental Clinic setting.
- Describe and discuss PCC Dental Assisting Clinic policies and standards and their purpose related to the professions of dentistry.
- Apply the steps needed to gather and document patient information while following appropriate HIPAA protocols.
- Use appropriate communication skills to interact with patients and health professionals.
- Practice communication with patients and health professionals through the use of inquiry and listening skills.
- Review verbally a patient's health history, present clinic policies to the patient and provide oral health care education and instructions.
- Document patient information in dental chart according to industry standards and HIPAA protocols.
Human Relations
Hours: 6- Perform basic chairside duties, demonstrating professionalism, teamwork and collaboration with peers, instructors, clinic dentists, and patients.
- Follow and respond appropriately to dental clinic policies and standards related to the dental profession.
- Describe and discuss PCC Dental Assisting Clinic policies and purposes, and how they relate to industry standards.
- Demonstrate proper patient management in a clinical setting.
- Practice proper patient management in a clinical setting.
- Describe the dental team and the importance of working as a collaborative team member.
- Demonstrate the ability to work as a dental team member and provide patient management skills in the clinical setting.
- Practice patient management techniques in the clinical setting with peers and instructors.
- Demonstrate proper patient management during clinical procedures.