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Health SciencesDescription of the Programme
This course prepares students for a career as a dental therapist or dental hygienist. You will develop skills to effectively perform preventive and operative dentistry for patients and provide specialist dental practices. The course has a strong focus on work-integrated learning in pre-clinical and clinical settings in oral health laboratories and dental clinics. As a student of oral health, you will learn how to assist in the prevention and treatment of tooth decay and gum disease and promote oral health. You will develop all the scientific, theoretical and clinical skills to practice in oral health therapy — which includes careers both as a dental hygienist and dental therapist.
Dental hygienist: dental hygienists provide dental care for all age groups. They examine and record the nature and severity of periodontal conditions, and clean, scale and root-plane teeth.
Dental therapist: dental therapists provide dental care for children and adolescents. They examine oral and dental conditions, restore and conserve permanent and deciduous teeth, perform extractions of deciduous teeth, and remove calculus. They are also able to provide care to adults under certain circumstances.
The programme covers Oral Informatics, Clinical Oral Health Practice, Oral Health Therapy, Community Oral Health, Oral Health Promotion, Oral Pathology and Diagnosis, Clinical treatment for children, Oral Anatomy, Advanced Anatomy and Physiology and Oral Disease Prevention & Management among other courses.
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