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Graduate Requirments

The document outlines the competencies required for graduates of the Lone Star College-Kingwood Dental Hygiene Program. It states that students must be competent in providing comprehensive dental hygiene care for all patient types through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The document then provides detailed descriptions of the skills and knowledge required for each stage of care, including performing examinations, risk assessments, treatment planning, patient education, application of infection control procedures, instrumentation techniques, and evaluation of treatment outcomes.

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Graduate Requirments

The document outlines the competencies required for graduates of the Lone Star College-Kingwood Dental Hygiene Program. It states that students must be competent in providing comprehensive dental hygiene care for all patient types through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The document then provides detailed descriptions of the skills and knowledge required for each stage of care, including performing examinations, risk assessments, treatment planning, patient education, application of infection control procedures, instrumentation techniques, and evaluation of treatment outcomes.

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Lone Star College-Kingwood Dental Hygiene Program Manual 2016-2017 Updated on 4.23.

2017

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED OF GRADUATES OF THE LONE STAR COLLEGEKINGWOOD DENTAL HYGIENE


PROGRAM (Defined)

In order to graduate from the Lone Star College-Kingwood Dental Hygiene program, a student must be competent in the
following areas:

Providing comprehensive dental hygiene care for the child, adolescent, adult, geriatric, and special needs patient.

This competency is divided into 4 distinct areas, assessment, planning, implementation & evaluation.

Assessment:

 Obtain, review and/or update and interpret an accurate medical history and vital signs.
 Perform an extraoral/intraoral examination accurately noting both normal and abnormal conditions present.
 Evaluate the periodontium and identify conditions that compromise periodontal health and function and accurately
records the results.
 Evaluate the dental history completing dental charting of existing conditions and current oral hygiene habits.
 Identify the need for radiographs, obtain diagnostically correct radiographs and distinguish normal from abnormal
anatomical findings on the radiographs and accurately records the results.
 Complete risk assessments including oral cancer, caries & periodontal disease.

Planning:

 Analyze and interpret data to formulate a dental hygiene treatment need related to and congruent with the
diagnosis of the dentist and other health professionals.
 Determine goals and establish expected outcomes related to the needs and desires of the patient and the dental
hygiene treatment need.
 Design a care plan with a sequence of educational, preventive and therapeutic services and based on the dental
hygiene treatment need.
 Obtain consultations and make referrals as appropriate and to the appropriate professionals.

Implementation:

 Provide comprehensive dental hygiene care by applying basic and advanced principles of dental hygiene.
 Educate patients to prevent and control risk factors that contribute to caries, periodontal disease and other oral
conditions.
 Utilize accepted infection control procedures.
 Apply basic and advanced principles of dental hygiene instrumentation to remove deposits without trauma to hard
or soft tissue.
 Control pain and anxiety through the use of accepted pharmacological and behavioral techniques.
 Provide adjunct Dental Hygiene Services that can be legally performed in the State of Texas.

Evaluation:

 Evaluate the outcomes of dental hygiene interventions using indices, instruments, examination techniques, and
patient self-report as specified in the patient goals.
 Compare actual outcomes to expected outcomes, reevaluating goals, diagnoses and services when expected
outcomes are not achieved.
 Evaluate a patient’s satisfaction with the oral health care received and the oral health status achieved.

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