Course Description
31-508-308 DENTAL CHAIRSIDE - ADVANCED...prepares dental assistant students to adapt chairside skills to assisting with dental specialties as they are performed in general practice. Focuses on pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral maxillofacial surgery, endodontics, periodontic, and prosthodontics. Students will also develop the ability to assist with sealants, perform coronal polishing, and apply topical fluoride and topical anesthetics. (Prerequisites: 31-508-302, Dental Chairside; all other 2nd semester classes; Corequisite: 31-508-309, Dental Lab Procedures; all other 3rd semester classes)
Course Typically Offered
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What will I learn?
- Evaluate nutrition and its relationship to total health
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with pediatric dentistry
- Assist with a sealant procedure
- Perform coronal polishing procedure
- Apply fluoride agents
- Apply topical anesthetic
- Position dental dam
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during orthodontics
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with oral maxillofacial surgery
- Characterize pharmacological agents commonly used in dentistry
- Prepare a prescription for a dentist's signature
- Reinforce a dental prescription for a patient
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during endodontics
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during fixed prosthodontics
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during removable prosthodontics
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during periodontics
- Select techniques for assisting patients with special needs
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with implants
Class list
1 classes found
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Class Number: DENTAL 31508308-1 - Dental Chairside Advanced