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Description:
Continuation of clinical dental hygiene practice providing comprehensive dental hygiene care in a clinic setting on patients. Emphasis on assessing, planning, and implementing comprehensive dental hygiene care for diverse patient populations and management of patients with special needs in a clinical setting. Students apply knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical skills acquired in previous completed dental hygiene courses. Additional procedures include local anesthesia, advanced instrumentation techniques, and locally delivered antimicrobials. Progress of development in clinical performance will be evaluated with each successive academic period including evaluation of periodontal probing with a passing grade of 80%. Intended for students in the Dental Hygiene Baccalaureate Degree Program; enrollment is limited to students accepted in the program.
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Prerequisite:
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Corequisite:
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Advisory:
Advisory: Not open to students with credit in D H 62B.
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Repeatability:
Not Repeatable.
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Hours:
1 hours lecture per week, 23 hours lab per week. 288 hours total per quarter.
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Foothill GE Area:English
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Transferability:
CSU
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Transfer GE:
Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
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Foothill Transfer GE Guide
Department Note:
There is a selective admission process to enroll in Dental Hygiene courses, except for DH200L which is open to all students. For an application, call (650) 949-7538.
