Program Details

Your 33-Month Journey

As well as learning to assess patients’ risks for disease and prescribe long-term oral healthcare goals, you will gain a broad, science-based perspective on dental hygiene research and practice.

First-Year Experience

• study anatomy, physiology, and the impact of nutrition on oral health
• explore basic chemistry, microbiology, mathematics, and statistics
• learn the essentials of psychology, expository writing, and communication
• explore patient and healthcare communities through the study of American culture, public life, and human psychology

Second-Year Experience

• study dental anatomy, embryology, histology, periodontology, and pathology
• participate in pre-clinic, dental radiology, and dental materials labs
• learn dental hygiene process of care and in pain management labs
• develop skills for conducting oral health research

Third-Year Experience

• deepen your knowledge of pharmacology and the medical complex through patient case-study analysis
• participate in extensive clinical dental hygiene care in our onsite and external practice sites
• investigate the scope of dental hygiene practice and career management
• explore health care ethics and community oral health
• complete a capstone project in dental hygiene leadership