Students also practise dietary counselling to assist clients in maintaining oral health. This course facilitates the integration of theoretical knowledge and clinical procedures. Laboratory sessions with mannequins provide practice in permitted intra-oral functions. Students provide their assigned intra-oral services to clients in Algonquin's dental clinic. In addition to chairside assistance, students practice their permitted restorative intra-oral functions.
Rotations also provide experience in client reception, appointing and billing procedures.
This course is an introduction to applied communication, with particular emphasis on the development of speaking, listening, reading, writing and thinking skills. The language skills developed in this course are useful to students in college courses as well as in the workplace.