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  • DENT 1045: Dental Hygiene II Clinical

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program. Corequisite(s): DENT 1040. Provides for developing clinical dental hygiene skills, practiced on patients in a clinical setting, including oral health education, practice management, patient assessment and treatment. Emphasizes treatment planning and emergency preparedness. All skills are taught to clinical competence. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.. Course Lab fee of $85 applies.
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  • DENT 1050: Clinical Dental Radiography

    1.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance in Dental Hygiene program. Corequisite(s): DENT 1055. Focuses on radiation physics, biology, protection and quality dental techniques. Prepares competency in film processing, mounting, interpretation of errors, recognition of anatomical landmarks, and evidence of pathologies. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.
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  • DENT 1055: Clinical Dental Radiography Lab

    1.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program. Corequisite(s): DENT 1050. Focuses on clinical application of radiation physics, biology, protection and quality dental techniques. Prepares students for competency of film processing and mounting, interpretation of errors, recognition of anatomical landmarks, and evidence of pathologies. Practices skills on radiographic mannequins in a laboratory setting. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.. Course Lab fee of $74 applies.
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  • DENT 1060: General and Oral Pathology

    2.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program. Focuses on the study of commonly encountered systemic and oral diseases; etiology, presentation, treatment and effect on dental treatment, including associated emergency procedures. Emphasizes the principles of inflammation, immunology, healing, and repair. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.
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  • DENT 1070: Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office

    2.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program. Introduces the basic principles and management of medical emergencies that could occur in a dental office, including the care and clinical management of medically compromised patients.
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  • DENT 2020: Dental Pharmacology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Accepted into Dental Hygiene program. Focuses on pharmacology as it affects the clinical practice of dentistry. Emphasizes drugs commonly used in dentistry, for treatment of common systemic and oral diseases, and for emergency treatment: effects, administration, and toxicology. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.
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  • DENT 206G: Oral Public Health GI

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Dental Hygiene Program. Examines the principles of community health, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of health care, with an emphasis on oral health. Builds on knowledge of ethics, basic and dental sciences, and clinical dental hygiene practice. Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to function in a community health setting and includes learning experiences in community health agencies. Analyzes and evaluates global or intercultural issues. Evaluates cultural rules and biases. Explores stereotypical cultural conceptions.
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  • DENT 3010: Pain Management

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): DENT 3015. Focuses on pain control including local and topical oral anesthesia, nitrous oxide conscious sedation and other means of pain control, which is accepted as standard of care. Applies gained knowledge for direct clinical application on patients in the clinical setting. Demonstrates preclinical competence in the laboratory setting. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares the student for clinical dental hygiene practice and prepares students for regional anesthesia board exams.. Course fee of $3175 for practical experience applies.
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  • DENT 3015: Dental Hygiene III Clinical

    4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Dental Hygiene program and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): DENT 3010. Introduces skills involving oral anesthesia (pain control) and supportive periodontal treatment. Utilizes advanced skills of dental hygiene practice, including assessment and treatment on patients of all ages in a clinical setting, with emphasis on planning and comprehensive treatment. Requires demonstration of clinical competence unless otherwise noted in the course outline. Includes more rigorous skill and patient difficulty levels than the first year clinical experiences. Builds on basic and dental sciences and foundational skills to include DENT3010, and prepares the student for clinical dental hygiene practice.. Course Lab fee of $63 applies.
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  • DENT 3030: Periodontology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Dental Hygiene Program and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the study of the healthy periodontal tissues, and the factors, recognition, and classes of periodontal disease. Provides background knowledge of nonsurgical and surgical treatment of periodontal disease. Builds on basic and dental sciences and prepares for clinical dental hygiene practice.
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