The state of Florida has 18 accredited, entry-level dental hygiene associate degree programs,
but until now, there was no advanced dental hygiene degree available. As dental hygiene …

Objectives. To evaluate the attitudes of dental hygiene (DH) students toward underserved
populations, and to compare their attitudes to the attitudes of freshman dental students (DDS). …

This study seeks to determine if students who completed the 2-year dental hygiene program
at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center developed in the area of cultural …

The Adolescent Dental Health Project was collaboratively developed with Dentistry and
Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in …

Academic Service Learning (ASL) is a teaching method used to cultivate a connection between
course work and real life experiences. It allows students to contribute to their community …

Domestic violence has been coined an “unacknowledged epidemic.” Nearly 5.3 million
women, 18 years and older, are victimized by intimate partners each year. It is estimated that 33…

The number of dental hygiene schools offering a bachelor degree is decreasing, while the
number of schools offering an associate degree is increasing. Of the 10 dental hygiene …

Dental hygienists perform a wide variety of procedures and there are various levels of care
being rendered within the dental hygiene profession, ranging from assembly line …

An important goal of dental hygiene education is graduating clinically competent practitioners.
Much of the clinical curriculum includes process and product evaluations that monitor and …

The American Association of Dental Schools requires dental hygiene (DH) programs to graduate
students who meet entry-level health competency in promotion and disease prevention …