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Oct 04, 2025
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DHYG 201 - Community and Public Health Dentistry
PREREQUISITES: DHYG 204 - Pain Management , DHYG 228 - Dental Hygiene Clinical Procedures
COREQUISITES: DHYG 203 - Dental Materials , DHYG 222 - Oral Pathology , DHYG 224 - Dental Hygiene Clinic II , DHYG 209 - Preventive Dentistry
PROGRAM: Dental Hygiene
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 2
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 2
TOTAL CONTACT HOURS MIN: 32
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall 2024
A study of the principles and methods used in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating community dental health programs. Topics include epidemiology, research methodology, biostatistics, preventive dental care, dental health education, program planning, and financing and utilization of dental services. Upon completion, students should be able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a community dental health program.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be expected to:
- Compare and contrast public health dentistry to clinical dentistry.
- Discuss local, state, federal, and international dental health programs and organizations.
- Identify current Healthy People dental health objectives.
- Demonstrate an overall knowledge of the fundamentals of epidemiology.
- Identify various dental indices available to assess patients in a clinical and school classrooms.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of biostatistics and solve elementary problems that relate to dental public health.
- Discuss research methodology as related to dental public health.
- Identify the components of a quality research article and perform critical analyses of dental research articles.
- Critique dental health literature for quality and accuracy.
- Discuss statistics related to the effects of supply and demand on the dental profession and personnel.
- Describe the prevention and demographics of oral disease.
- Assess community dental needs; analyze the strengths and weaknesses of present dental public health programs, and discuss future needs and trends.
- Acquire a fundamental knowledge of educational methodology and theories in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating with a child population.
- Discuss sociological changes throughout history to the present that affect the dental profession, dental disease patterns, and the prevention of dental disease.
- Describe dental health programs appropriate for the needs of the geriatric population.
- Discuss the financing of dental care.
- Describe the history, benefits, and types of fluoride programs.
- Calibrate, implement and evaluate a dental screening program with a school classroom.
- Plan, implement, and demonstrate a visual aid used within a classroom lesson plan.
- Discuss the appropriate use of media and visual aids in presentations.
- Discuss recent statistics and epidemiological data on dental surveys and studies.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- International and federal programs
- Research methodology
- Epidemiology
- Critical analysis of dental literature
- Dental health education
- Community programs
- School screening
- Dental practice and the community
- Biostatistics
- Current Healthy People Objectives
- Dental indices related to public health
GRADING POLICY
Grading Scale:
A = 93-100
B = 87 - 92.9
C = 80 - 86.9
D = 77 - 79.9
F = 0 - 76.9
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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