Dental Hygiene Associate in Applied Science
Dental Hygiene is an allied health program that emphasizes the prevention of oral health disease. The program prepares the individual to be a dental hygienist. The primary functions of the clinical dental hygienist are assessing the patients’ overall health, formulating evidence-based patient-centered treatment care plans, and performing the clinical procedures outlined in the individual treatment care plans. Additional roles of the dental hygienist include the participation in community health programs, research, sales, and education. The dental hygiene student will perform procedures that include, but are not limited to, exposing radiographs, applying caries-preventive agents, providing or
Courses
- AHS 113 — Head & Neck Anatomy
- BIO 210 — Anatomy & Physiology I*
- BIO 211 — Anatomy & Physiology II*
- BIO 225 — Microbiology*
- BIO 240 — Nutrition
- CHM 105 — General Organic & Biochemistry
- DHG 115 — Medical & Dental Emergencies
- DHG 121 — Dental Radiography
- DHG 122 — Office Management for the Dental Hygienist
- DHG 125 — Tooth Morphology & Histology
- DHG 140 — General & Oral Pathology
- DHG 141 — Periodontology
- DHG 143 — Dental Pharmacology
- DHG 161 — Clinical DHG I Foundations
- DHG 165 — Clinical Dental Hygiene I
- DHG 175 — Clinical Dental Hygiene II
- DHG 232 — Community Oral Health Outreach
- DHG 241 — Integrated Dental Hygiene I
- DHG 242 — Integrated Dental Hygiene II
- DHG 244 — Dental Materials
- DHG 255 — Clinical Dental Hygiene III
- DHG 265 — Clinical Dental Hygiene IV
- ENG 101 — English Composition I*
- HSS 295 — Leadership Through the Humanities
- MAT 120 — Probability and Statistics*
- PHI 110 — Ethics*
- PSY 201 — General Psychology*
- SOC 101 — Introduction to Sociology*
- SPC 205 — Public Speaking*