Course Description
31-508-302 DENTAL CHAIRSIDE...prepares dental assistant students to chart oral cavity structures, dental pathology, and restorations and to assist a dentist with basic dental procedures including examinations, pain control, amalgam restoration, and cosmetic restoration. Students will also develop the ability to educate patients about preventive dentistry, brushing and flossing techniques, and dental procedures, using lay terminology. Throughout the course, students will apply decoding strategies to the correct use and interpretation of dental terminology. (Prerequisites: 10-508-101, Dental Health Safety; 31-508-304, Dental & General Anatomy; all other second semester classes)
Course Typically Offered
Most NWTC classes are offered in 8-week sessions. Learn more about how our class schedule can help you succeed.
What will I learn?
- Decode dental terminology
- Operate dental equipment
- Apply the principles of chairside dentistry
- Transfer dental instruments for various dental procedures
- Maintain clear operating field
- Manage handpieces and rotary instruments
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with dental examinations
- Record reported examination findings of the oral cavity structures
- Record dental pathology in a chart
- Record restorations in a chart
- Record treatment plan in a chart
- Document treatment and procedures that have been performed
- Assist with chairside pain control
- Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with a direct restoration
- Place a matrix system
- Define preventive dentistry and its importance to the patient
- Demonstrate proper tooth brushing and interproximal cleaning techniques
- Interpret dental procedures to a patient, using lay terminology
Class list
1 classes found
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Class Number: DENTAL 31508302-1 - Dental Chairside