DA 101L - Dental Assisting I Lab

Current or prior enrollment in DA 101  or Department approval.

Course Description: Provides hands-on, clinical instruction of the lecture material presented in DA 101 . Students demonstrate their capabilities and understanding of the dental assistant’s role through clinical evaluation in a lab setting. Tasks practiced include, but are not limited to: use of dental terminology, dental tray set-up, recognition of instruments used by dentist, basic chairside procedures such as saliva evacuation, assisting during restorative treatment, four-handed dentistry, chairside charting using tooth numbering systems, and names of tooth surfaces. Students are introduced to the various day-to-day operations within a dental office.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Demonstrate proficiency in using diverse dental terminology
• CLO#2: Identify common dental hand instruments and explain how they are used in delivering dental care.
• CLO#3: Describe and perform the sterilization processes and principles of dental asepsis. (ILO: Critical Thinking)