I Introduces the organization and component aspects of the health delivery system in the United States. Emphasizes the effect on the patient, the provider, health institutions, and the general community. A multidisciplinary course that prepares students for clinical dentistry. Students develop skills in recording patient medical history, performing comprehensive head and neck exams and monitoring vital signs. Covers infection control and safe working practices and introduces oral pathology and systemic diseases that effect the oral cavity.
Students receive clinical experience in assisting.
12 course hours, Dr. Shakun HDG 511 Dental Morphology and Introduction to Occlusion Introduces the morphology of the permanent dentition, emphasizes eye-hand coordination, dental inlay wax manipulation, reproduction of tooth crown contours in three dimension with wax, and some basic factors of occlusion and their relation to tooth morphology. I Introduces the carious process, the classification of carious lesions and the restoration of each classification. Includes nomenclature, cavity preparation, use of instruments and manipulation of the various restorative materials. Lectures and laboratory exercises. HDG 601 Fundementals of Critical Thinking Introduces the basic concepts of statistics and experimental design and emphasizes organization of data, graphs and tables, probability, descriptive statistics, measures of central tendency and variation, the normal distribution, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and elements of research design.