Provides for discussion of patients with special needs. Completion of first year dental hygiene courses. Includes the signs, symptoms, contagion recognition of selected diseases of the oral cavity and systemic diseases that manifest themselves in the oral cavity. Completion of first year dental hygiene courses. Provides a broad understanding of community dental health and dental epidemiology.
Students develop and implement a basic community dental health project.
Second semester dental hygiene student or Alaska licensure in dental hygiene, and current CPR certification. Teaches techniques of regional anesthesia in dentistry, pharmacology of local anesthetic drugs, armamentarium, anatomical and physiological considerations, and potential complications. Contact Dental Programs. Offered fall and summer semesters as warranted by community interest. Concurrent enrollment in DH 295A and DH 212.