Description: Students will learn the importance of ethics and jurisprudence during practice as a dental hygienist. Educational requirements and professional organizations will be explained. Students will learn the principles that the dental hygiene process of care provides.
Description: Students will learn the importance of recognizing abnormalities in the oral cavity. They will learn the characteristics of oral lesions related to disease classification. There is an emphasis on the developmental disorders that occur during the formation of the oral facial complexes.
Description: Students will learn the modifications that are required when treating patients with special needs. Specialized care will be the focus of this course.
Description: Students will learn a variety of techniques that use for oral hygiene care. The importance of health care promotion will be explained. Disease prevention and smoking cessation are integral components of this course.
Description: Issues affecting research in community health will be explained. The reasons for collaboration between programs will be addressed. Pertinent data in community health projects will be reviewed and summarized.
Description: The importance of community health in Canada and Ontario will be taught in this course. The agencies that are available and the role of the dental hygienist in these agencies will be explained. Students will also address the epiddemiology of dental disease.
Description: The theoretical background for the techniques used in clinical practice will be provided in this course. The area that will be covered in orthodontics.
Description: This course will allow students to develop their didactic skills and apply the knowledge they have acquired from their theory courses. Students will begin to practice instrumentation technqiues in this course.
Description: This course is intended to explain basic computer hardware and software concepts and introduce the use of a window-based operating system and useful applications. The applications will include word processing, spreadsheets, databases and presentation packages. Students will operate microcomputers independently, organize related files and folders on disks, and produce professional looking documents, spreadsheets, databases [...]
Description: Students will learn the principles of composition along with grammar and punctuation skills. Students will improve their writing skills and focus on clear organized writing. Students will summarize, examine, and discuss material from various sources including research papers and use APA formatting in references.
