DHYG 328B Dental Anesthesia & Sedation
This course is designed to provide junior and degree completion students with the opportunity to explore, develop, and apply advanced concepts and skills within the process of dental hygiene care. The course has two units: Nitrous Oxide and Local Anesthesia. The course focuses extensively on pain control and provide the student with didactic and laboratory components utilizing guidelines (rules and regulations) in the State of Maryland for hygienists to administer local anesthesia and administer nitrous oxide in their scope of practice or if the students plan on practicing in a state that has allowed legislation to pass. Students will learn all aspects of local, including block anesthesia, administration and monitoring of nitrous oxide. Students perform all injections to competency in our lab sessions, then apply it in practice. Students also perform administration and monitoring of nitrous oxide in lab competency sessions and apply it in practice.