Dental Assistant Award Outcomes
Upon completion of the Dental Assistant Program, the student will have the knowledge to:
A. Demonstrate an understanding of oral and body structures and their functions.
B. Conduct effective communication with patients, dentists and other allied dental/medical health professionals through oral and written records.
C. Portray human relation skills necessary to function successfully as a dental health team member in providing optimum care legally and ethically to all patients.
D. Perform basic dental office/computer management procedures.
E. Determine proper methods of environmental hazards management, occupational safety and proper infection control/universal precautions procedures.
F. Examine the role of preventive dentistry as it applies to the interrelationship of medical/dental health.
G. Demonstrate principles of chairside assisting and organizational skills for procedures in general and specialty dentistry.
H. Manipulate selected dental chairside and laboratory materials.
I. Differentiate between normal and pathological conditions of oral structures.
J. Apply basic pharmacological concepts and therapeutics as they relate to dentistry.
K. Demonstrate clinical proficiency in the advanced intraoral functions/procedures as defined in the Minnesota State Board of Dentistry’s Rules and Regulations document.
L. Demonstrate proficiency in exposing, processing, and mounting diagnostically acceptable radiographs with quality assurance.
M. Incorporate knowledge to successfully complete the Dental Assisting National Board and the MN Registration Examination.
N. Participate in professional development.
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