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Dental Assisting Program Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate patient education and management skills.
- Provide oral health instruction and counseling. Recommend home-care strategies.
- Recognize patient abilities to properly care for their teeth.
- Translate dental terminology to layman's terms.
- Advise patients on impact of diet on oral health.
- Identify normal and pathological abnormalities of the oral structures.
- Perform extra oral tissue examinations.
- Demonstrate administrative office skills.
- Accurately review health history forms with patients.
- Practice effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Model professional conduct and appearance, and demonstrate professional behaviors consistent to the dental workplace.
- Identify and effectively manage time and resources.
- Demonstrate occupational safety skills.
- Apply current concepts of infection control and occupational safety.
- Engage and assist in the management of medical and dental emergencies and administer basic life support procedures, when indicated.
- Demonstrate proficiency in sterilizing instruments and disinfecting equipment.
- Demonstrate general chair-side skills.
- Assist in diagnostic and operative procedures. Perform clinical supportive functions during pre-treatment, treatment, and post-treatment phases.
- Demonstrate proper tray setups.
- Identify and differentiate between esthetic and restorative treatment procedures.
- Demonstrate fluency and competency dealing with legal and ethical issues.
- Practice exercising sound clinical judgment while performing duties within existing ethical and legal parameters of the clinical dental practice.
- Practice compliancy with OSHA, OR-OSHA, and HIPAA regulations.
- Demonstrate radiographic proficiencies.
- Demonstrate proper film placement for intra- and extra-oral films and expose, process, and mount radiographs of diagnostic quality.
- Effectively communicate radiographic safety techniques and concerns to patients and peers and acquire maximum diagnostic yield with minimal exposure to radiation.
- Demonstrate dental and laboratory sciences skills.
- Apply knowledge of basic dental sciences in professional setting, use correct dental terminology, take alginate impressions, and complete laboratory procedures, including pouring and trimming molds and study casts.
