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Dental Chairside - Advanced

Credits: 5
Course Number: 31-508-308

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Course Description

31-508-308 DENTAL CHAIRSIDE - ADVANCED...prepares dental assistant students to adapt chairside skills to assisting with dental specialties as they are performed in general practice. Focuses on pediatric dentistry, orthodontics, oral maxillofacial surgery, endodontics, periodontic, and prosthodontics. Students will also develop the ability to assist with sealants, perform coronal polishing, and apply topical fluoride and topical anesthetics. (Prerequisites: 31-508-302, Dental Chairside; all other 2nd semester classes; Corequisite: 31-508-309, Dental Lab Procedures; all other 3rd semester classes)

Course Typically Offered

  • Fall
  • Spring

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How can I use this course to achieve my career goals?

This course is associated with the following programs:

What will I learn?

  1. Evaluate nutrition and its relationship to total health
  2. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with pediatric dentistry
  3. Assist with a sealant procedure
  4. Perform coronal polishing procedure
  5. Apply fluoride agents
  6. Apply topical anesthetic
  7. Position dental dam
  8. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during orthodontics
  9. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting with oral maxillofacial surgery
  10. Characterize pharmacological agents commonly used in dentistry
  11. Prepare a prescription for a dentist's signature
  12. Reinforce a dental prescription for a patient
  13. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during endodontics
  14. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during fixed prosthodontics
  15. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during removable prosthodontics
  16. Explain how dental implants can affect and benefit a patient
  17. Adapt dental assisting techniques when assisting during periodontics
  18. Select techniques for assisting patients with special needs

Class Details

Class Number:
83313
Delivery:
Blended - Less than 50% Online
Term:
Fall 2024
Session:
8W1
Instructors:
Jami Van Enkevort
Date Range:
-
Estimated Cost:
$1,258.00 *

Class Notes

  • Students will attend class at the assigned dates and times. This class will be taught through a combination of in-person and live virtual meetings accessed anywhere using internet. For more information regarding this delivery and how to access your class, see www.nwtc.edu/blendedfaq

Meeting Times

Dates Day(s) / Time Location(s)
08/19/24 - 10/14/24 M
7:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Green Bay Campus Room HS225
08/19/24 - 10/14/24 M
12:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Green Bay Campus Room HS223
08/22/24 - 10/10/24 Th
12:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Green Bay Campus Room HS223
Green Bay Campus Room HS225
08/23/24 - 10/11/24 F
7:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Web Conference

* Cost displayed is an estimate and may be discounted if attendees are residents of Northeast Wisconsin Back to cost