The fee is payable each semester and is based on the cost to the School to provide this service. Dental hygiene students also purchase some instruments and pay a rental for the laboratory and clinic instruments. Instrument purchase and Rental fees are divided between the fall and spring semester. The Indiana University School of Dentistry s Faculty Council has ruled that each student shall purchase all required textbooks. Those identified as recommended textbooks may be purchased or ordered through the bookstore at the student s option.
Students are responsible for the security of their instruments and equipment.
Each student is assigned a locker and lockable drawers in the laboratory. Eye Glasses Dental treatments and associated laboratory procedures require the use of rotary cutting instruments. The use of these instruments on plastics, metals and tooth structure creates the threat of eye injuries. Students are required to provide protective lenses for themselves, and to wear them at all times while operating in the clinics or working in the laboratories. For those students who do not wear corrective lenses, safety glasses may be purchased in the Dental Student Instruments Office.