Course Number: CHS235A
Course Title: Dental Health

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

To prepare students to provide advice to people about dental disorders and to deliver preventive dental care services, especially to children.  

Specific

Students will be able to:

  1. Record findings of a dental exam on a standard mouth diagram.
  2. Name specific teeth by letter and number so that student can report problems in specific teeth to dentist.
  3. Recognize retained deciduous teeth; explain when retained deciduous teeth should be reported to a dentist.
  4. Recognize plaque. Recognize caries.
  5. Recognize dental abscess.
  6. Recognize periodontal disease.
  7. Explain how caries cause toothache.
  8. Identify which conditions require referral.
  9. Refer patients to the next appropriate level of care, using appropriate records and procedures.
10. Explain how teeth can be protected from injury during sports and play.
11. Explain proper management of an avulsed tooth.
12. Explain to lay people how caries and periodontal disease affect health.
13. Explain to lay people what is Plaque, how it occurs, how it causes dental caries and periodontal disease.
14. Explain to lay people how plaque can be removed.
15. Explain to lay people what foods protect teeth and which foods harm teeth by causing decay.
16. Persuade parents and children to correctly use fluoride applications and tooth brushing for the prevention of
     dental disease.
17. Explain to lay people the effects of tobacco on the mouth.
18. Explain how alcohol affects the mouth. Explain to lay people the effects of betel nut on the mouth.
19. Counsel adolescents and adults about effective measures for prevention of mouth and neck cancers.
20. Recognize teeth that are affected by fluorosis vs. dental caries.
21. Explain what should be done (and not done) to teeth affected by fluorosis.
22. Explain why tetracycline and doxycycline should not be used in pregnancy and children under 8 years.
23. Explain to pregnant women how a clean mouth and teeth protects the pregnancy and newborn child.
24. Explain to pregnant women what they must do to assure a clean mouth.
25. Counsel parents of special needs children on oral health including: how to clean teeth, how often to clean teeth of children who
     cannot use a brush, what diet advice to give to children who are on a soft diet, and what to advise about use of bottles and
     breast feeding for these children.
26. Explain to parents and children how fissure sealants protect teeth and what age children should be treated with sealants.
27. Determine whether a child is eligible for fissure sealant placement based on age and dentition.
28. Properly apply fluoride varnish to teeth of children between 6 months and 6 years.
29. Demonstrate the methods in managing a child- patient (to cooperate with work in the mouth).
30. Create a registry of children eligible for fluoride varnish in the island/catchment area of student's dispensary.
31. Create a registry of children eligible for fissure sealants in the island/catchment area of student's dispensary.
32. Describe when children should be placed on each registry or removed from the registry based on age.
33. Identify which children on the fluoride varnish registry are due for fluoride application.  
34. Identify which children on the fissure sealant registry are due for fissure sealant. Use the registries to correctly record services
     given to children.