DH 218 Special Patient Care

1 Semester Hour

Prerequisite: All Dental-Hygiene specific courses to date.

This course emphasizes the special treatment considerations to be employed while treating different patient types. Topics will include special considerations to be given while treating the child patient, the adolescent patient, the adult patient, and the geriatric patient. The treatment of medically compromised patients and developmentally disabled patients will be addressed as well.