DENH 670 Community-Based Primary Oral Healthcare IV

General

• Accurately evaluate and assess patient medical/dental histories/interviews and clinical status in relation to preventing, identifying, and managing medical emergencies in the dental setting.
• Appropriately consult with or refer to a collaborative management dentist or other healthcare professionals.
• Assess and manage dental caries and caries risk factors associated with dental caries.
• Deliver properly sequenced treatment utilizing appropriate pain management techniques within the dental therapy/advanced dental therapy scope of practice.
• Demonstrate accurate and effective recordkeeping for all dental therapy/advanced dental therapy clinical experiences.
• Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the principles of wound healing.
• Demonstrate appropriate critical thinking, clinical judgment, and psychomotor motor skills while providing emergency palliative treatment of dental pain, placing temporary restorations, or while recementing permanent crowns.
• Demonstrate appropriate critical thinking, clinical judgment, and psychomotor skills while preparing and restoring faulty tooth structure to proper form and function.
• Demonstrate appropriate critical thinking, clinical judgment, and psychomotor skills while providing direct or indirect pulp capping on permanent or primary teeth or pulpotomies on primary teeth.
• Demonstrate appropriate critical thinking, sound judgment, and psychomotor motor skills while providing dental therapy/advanced dental therapy non-surgical exodontia and tissue sample collection services.
• Demonstrate compassion, respect, and cultural competence in all communication with patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrate professionalism and ethical judgment and behavior while providing dental therapy/advanced dental therapy patient care and associated activities.
• Describe various oral surgery procedures and their indications in the practice of general dentistry.
• Determine and manage complications associated with tooth extractions consistent with dental therapy/advanced dental therapy scope of practice and collaborative management authorization.
• Gather appropriate data, evaluate and assess the data to create individualized, problem-based treatment plans within the context of collaborative management authorization while considering patient values and concerns.
• Identify and manage preventive oral health strategies and procedures for patients across the lifespan.
• Plan for safe and effective oral health care delivery as defined by dental therapy/advanced dental therapy scope of practice.
• Provide appropriate reparative services to patients with defective oral prostheses.
• Provide, administer, and dispense medications appropriate to dental therapy/advanced dental therapy scope of practice and patients¿ dental needs.
• Self evaluate the dental therapy/advanced dental therapy services provided to patients across the lifespan and demonstrate willingness for self-improvement.
• Utilize sound clinical judgment and decision making to determine when a patient can be treated within the dental therapy/advanced dental therapy scope of practice or when patient referral to the collaborative management agreement dentist or other professionals for diagnosis and treatment is appropriate.