DHY 124 - Dental Hygiene Clinical 3 Pain Management

2 credit hours - Eight hours of clinical weekly; one term.
Expand knowledge and clinical skills with client assessments, instrumentation and preventive techniques, with emphasis on providing care for the light to moderate classification clients. Under appropriate supervision, provide client care assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Examine the application of various physical, chemical and psychological modalities to increase client comfort and control pain when providing dental hygiene therapeutic services. Utilize the knowledge and understanding of pain management to increase client comfort while providing dental hygiene therapeutic services. Lab fee $350. Clinical fee $100.

Prerequisite(s): DHY 110 , DHY 112 , DHY 114 , and DHY 116 DHY 120 with a grade of C or better in each course.

Corequisite(s): DHY 120 and DHY 122 .

Course Outcomes:

Describe how to manage patients who are medically compromised, patients with various types of mental and physical disabilities, patients with substance abuse issues, and patients with different oral health needs.
Discuss nonsurgical scaling and root planing, adjunctive therapy, and types of indices and scoring methods.
Perform advance instrumentation techniques to manipulate various instruments around the oral cavity, the dentition, and to remove biofilm and calculus to supra and subgingival.
Distinguish patient’s oral health based on dental hygiene diagnosis and treatment plan for care.
Formulate and use infection control protocols plan, preventative practices for optimal oral health, and disease prevention for patients.
Demonstrate and apply correct ergonomics, how to sharpen hand instruments, using a slow speedy handpiece, using powered instruments, and using air polishers in dental hygiene.
Compose documentation of all patient findings in clinical notes using computer software system.
Explain the critical procedures to manage complications/medical emergencies.