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Summer 2025
Apr 03, 2025 |
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| DAST 1100 - Introduction to Dental Assisting |
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Prerequisite: admission to the Dental Assisting certificate program.
This course introduces the students to the scope, role and responsibilities of the dental assistant with basic concepts of preventive dentistry and associated specialties. The history of dentistry, importance of oral health, dental assistant’s role in a medical emergency, assisting with special needs patients, nutrition, legal/ethics aspects of dentistry, and pharmacology will be discussed.
2.000 Credit hours 2.000 Lecture hours Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Hybrid, Independent Study, Lecture, Online Health Technologies Division Dental Assisting Department Course Attributes: Career Tech Assur Guide Crse Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Credit Prerequisites: Dental Assisting 1 |
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