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| Registered Dental Hygienist |
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| A liscenesed health care professional, oral health educator, and clinician, who as co thearapist with the dentist provides preventitive, educational, and therapeutic services sipporting total health for the control of oral diseases and the promotion or oral health |
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| What are the different types of practices in which DH are employed?(4) |
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1.periodontal practices
2.general dentistry practices
3.public health practices
4.pediactric practices |
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person who provides a service in exchange for a payment
-meets protocol for licenssure
-individuals with recognized expertise in a certain field
-actions remain in accordance with rules pertaining to behavior, dress, speech, etc. |
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| What is the purpose of dental hygiene? |
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| To promote and maintain oral wellness and thereby contribute to the quality of life. In todays age of consumerism, welness and self care, the preventitive role of the dental hygienest is assuming more value to the public than before |
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| Who is a dental hygienist? |
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| They are graduates of an accredated dental hygiene program in colleges and universities, and must take written and clinical exams before they are allowed to practice |
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| What are the three things a person must obtain before they are allowed to practice dental hygiene? |
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1.Accredation
2.Certification
3.licensure |
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| How does one obtain accredation? |
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| graduate from an accredated school |
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| How do dental hygienists get certified? |
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-passing national written board exams
-passing clinical exam
(nongovernment association) |
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| How does one receive a license to practice dental hygiene? |
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-done by state(govnernment association)
-done to ensure public safety |
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| Who sets standards for accredited dental hygiene progams? |
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| American Dental Association |
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| What designation does licensure get you? |
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| What is the passing grade on the national board exams? |
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| Clinical Board Examinations(5) |
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1.SRTA
2.CRDTS
3.NERB
4.WREB
5.CITA |
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| southern regional testing agency |
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| central regional dental testing service |
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| western regional examining board |
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| council of interstate testing agencies |
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| Which clinical exam would a georgia dental hygienist need to pass? |
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| CRDTS-central tegional dental testing service |
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| Levels of dental hygiene supervision(4) |
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1.Direct
2.indirect
3.general
4.independent |
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| Direct/personal supervision |
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| dentist present in facility, always sees patient |
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| prior diagnosis and authorization, dentist present on premisis but may not even see patient |
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| dentist does not have to see patient and can leave facility, authorizes DH on what they should do before patient arrives |
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| DH practice that has a relationship with a dentist that can be called in if needed |
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| act by which a licensing jurisdiction accepts a license from another state |
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| What does the "RDH" designation mean? |
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| identifies a dental hygienist as a oral health professional |
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| What do you have to do to obtain licesure in Georgia? |
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-Graduate from an accredated program
-pass national board
-pass CRDTS board
-pass state jurisprudence exam
-apply to GBOD for licensure |
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| What are the roles of the professional dental hygienist?(6) |
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1.Administrator/Manager
2.Change agent
3.Clinician
4.Client Advocate
5.Educator/Oral health Promoter
6.Researcher |
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| Roles of Dental Hygiene Clinician?(3) |
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1.Preventative
2.Therapeutic
3.Educational |
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| What procedures is it legal for a dental hygienist to perform? |
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| -depends on state dental practice act, which varies from state to state |
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| Laws established in each state to regulate the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene |
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| What do practice acts do? (4) |
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1.Establish criteria for education, licensure, relicensure
2.Define scope of practice
3.Protects the public
4.Creates board to oversee |
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| Who implements the standards for Clinical Dental Hygiene practice? |
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| What are the standards for Clinical Dental Hygiene practices?(3) |
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1.provides framework for clinical practice focusing on patient centered comprehensive care
2.Describe a competent level of dental hygiene care
3.Includes dental hygiene process of care |
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| What is the dental hygiene process of care? (6) |
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-Assessment
-Diagnosis
-Planning
-Implementation
-Evaluation
-Documentation |
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| selection of interventions |
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| feedback on effectiveness |
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| Which DH process of care is the most important? |
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| What is a professional code of ethics? |
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ADHA code of ethics- establishes standard for professional judgement and conduct
-provides statement of behavior the public can expect from us
-Guide us in making informed ethical decesions |
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1.Associates
2.Bachelors
3.Bachelor Degree Completion
4.Masters |
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| Who coined the term "dental hygiene" and in what year? |
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| When was the first assistant in DH trained by Fones? |
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| When did Fones give his first DH courses? |
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| Who was the first licensed DH and what year was she licensed? |
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| Irene Newman, 1917, Dr.Fones assistant |
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| future responsibility of DH will be to provice comprehensive care to homebound or institutionalized patients |
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| state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being and nore merelt the absence of disease or infirmity. Humans need fulfillment |
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| Process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health |
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| measures to prevent occurrence of disease as well as arresting its progress and reduce the consequences of established disease |
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| planned opportunities for communication designed to improve health knowledge and develop life skills to achieve and maintain health |
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| Health Promotion Paradigm |
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-wellness movement
-centers on population as a whole(quality of life model, health promotion framework) |
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| What is the relationships between oral health and general health?(5) |
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1.role in immunity
2.role in diagnosis of systemic conditions
3.role in ststemic health
4.Critical role in adequate nutrition
5.Adversly affected by drugs and thearpies used to treat systemic conditiond |
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| Oral health:role in immunity |
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-intact oral muocosa prevents entry of pathogens
-saliva contains antibacterial components |
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| Oral Health-Role in diagnosis of systemic conditions |
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| -see oral manifestations of disease, such as Crohn's disease |
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| Oral health, role in systemic health |
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| -increased risk for heart disease, stroke, poor control of diabetes, preterm low birthweight babies |
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| Relationship between oral health and general health |
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1.Critical role in adequate nutrition
2.Adversely affected by therapies and drugs used to treat systemic conditions |
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| Adversely affected by therapies and drugs used to treat systemic conditions |
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-lead to loss of salivary gland impacting ability to chew or swallow food
-may result in disfigurement |
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| Periodontal disease, association with systemic health |
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| periodontal bacteria can enter blood stream and travel to major organs and begin new infections |
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| What may happen is periodontal bacteria enters your blood stream? (4) |
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1.Contribute to development of heart disease
2.increase risk of stroke
3.increase risk of having preterm, low birth weight baby
4.pose thereat to people with diabetes, respiratory disease, rheumatoid arthritis or osteoporosis |
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| What is often considered the sixth complication of diabetes? |
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| periodontal disease- poorly controlled type 2 diabetec patients are more likely to develop periodontal disease than well controlled diabetics |
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