DENT 1123 - INTRODUCTION TO ORAL DIAGNOSIS AND PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY

[110 Credits]

This multidisciplinary course will prepare first-year dental students to assist third and fourth-year dental students chair-side in the clinic. The course will begin with the basics of infection disease control. Students will then learn about preventive dentistry and dental diseases. The course will then focus on the clinical aspects of performing an oral diagnosis and students will perform an oral diagnosis on partners and on a school patient. Students will then learn about the dental hygiene procedures and will perform the procedures on classmates and on a school patient. (Department of Diagnostic Sciences)