2025-2026 Academic Catalog
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DNAS 1040 - Essential Chairside Functions for the Dental Assistant
Credits: 6
Provides students with the tools necessary for success in the dental assisting program and college environment. The review of program requirements, policies, and procedures leads to the study of the history of dentistry and the dental health care team. Introduction to the dental assisting profession and professional association(s) provides initiation to co-curricular life of the college and community involvement. Prepares students to develop their own plan for academic, personal, and professional success through self-evaluation, application of specific strategies, discussions, guided journaling, and classroom exercises. These activities help students acquire strategies to help them cope with the academic and personal demands unique to the dental assisting program.
Provides basic knowledge and skill application for general chairside assisting procedures including professionalism, infection control, evaluation of patient medical and dental history, assessment data, and four-handed dentistry; and the coordination of didactic, clinic, laboratory, and activities to become proficient and efficient in general dentistry chairside performance and be familiar with the different dental specialties.
Prerequisite: Matriculation into the Dental Assisting Program
Corequisite: DNAS 1030 , DNAS 1044 , DNAS 1046 , DNAS 1047
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Previous: DAS* 140
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