USC Schedule of Classes

Procedures performed in selected dental specialty areas with emphasis on the role of the dental hygienist.

Principles and techniques of advanced dental hygiene with emphasis on advanced root instrumentaion and dental hygiene treatment planning.

Application of advanced techniques with emphasis on increased proficiency in skills: principles of prevention; periodontal examination; root planing; soft tissue curettage; local anesthesia; inhalation sedation.

Research design and methods,scientific database searching, evidence resources and evaluating information based on evidence-based principles. Application of basic research design methodology for analysis of literature. Duplicates credit in former DHYG 424ab.

Analysis of disease diagnoses, medical complications, pharmacologic interventions and therapeutic treatment modalities associated with a variety of system diseases. Concurrent enrollment: DHYG 507

Strategies for project data management and analysis, and dissemination of scholarly information through journal publications and oral and poster scientific presentations. Concurrent enrollment: DHYG 507

Applied study of dental hygiene education, with practical experience teaching in the classroom and laboratory settings, and teaching in the dental hygiene clinic. Prerequisite: DHYG 511.

The integration of technology in higher education and the relationship to quality of teaching, access to learners, and cost-effectiveness for universities and colleges.