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Dental hygienists ✔Correct Answer-licensed professionals who focus on oral health,
prevention of oral diseases, and health promotion
Process of dental hygiene care ✔Correct Answer-assessment, diagnosis, implementation,
evaluation, and documentation
Levi Spear Parmly ✔Correct Answer-in 1819, publishes "A Practical Guide to the Management
of Teeth" and emphasizes daily preventive oral behavior
Who is the father of Dental Hygiene? ✔Correct Answer-Dr. Alfred C. Fones
What was discovered in 1890 ✔Correct Answer-bacteria caused tooth decay
What was published in 1845 and by who? ✔Correct Answer-editors of the American Journal
of Dental Science published an editorial about dentistry's neglect of preventive oral healthcare
Odontocure ✔Correct Answer-a woman patrolling the neighborhood cleaning teeth
What happened in 1913? ✔Correct Answer-Dr. Fones, along with his cousin Irene Newman,
were instructing their first class of "dental hygienist"
Where did the teaching of the first class of dental hygienist take place? ✔Correct Answer-a
carriage house basement clinic in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Dental hygiene ✔Correct Answer-art and science of preventive oral health care, including
management of behaviors to prevent oral disease and the promote health
What does the art of dental hygiene involve? ✔Correct Answer-caring, ethics, professional
judgement, and critical thinking
What does the science of dental hygiene involve? ✔Correct Answer-evidence-based practices,
precise practice skills, and integration of knowledge
The Dental Hygienist ✔Correct Answer--primary oral healthcare professionals who are
licensed and have graduated from accredited dental hygiene programs in institutions of higher
educations
-promote and maintain oral wellness and contribute to overall health and quality of life
-interconnects care with oral healthcare providers; assists individuals in seeking other
healthcare services as needed
,What are the 4 major paradigm concepts? ✔Correct Answer-client, environment, health and
oral health, and dental hygiene actions
Major paradigm concept: Client ✔Correct Answer-recipient of dental hygiene care
Major paradigm concept: Environment ✔Correct Answer-factors other than dental hygiene
actions that affect the client's attainment of optimal oral health
Major paradigm concept: health and oral health ✔Correct Answer-client's state of well-being,
which exists on a continuum from optimal wellness to illness and fluctuates over time as a result
of biological, psychological, spiritual, and developmental factors
Major paradigm concept: dental hygiene actions ✔Correct Answer-involve cognitive,
affective, and psychomotor performances including assessing, DH diagnosis, planning,
implementing, evaluating, and documenting (DH process of care) preventive oral health care
What are the 7 professional roles of a DH? ✔Correct Answer-administrators, entrepreneurs,
clinicians, corporate workers, researchers, educators, and public health advocates
Professional role of a DH: administrator ✔Correct Answer--Identify and manage resources
-Participate in strategic planning
-Formulate policies and procedures
-Apply organizational skills and solve problems
-Evaluate and modify programs based on evaluation outcomes
Professional role of a DH: entrepreneur ✔Correct Answer--Initiate or finance new commercial
enterprises
-Initiate or finance new commercial enterprises to address needs of consumers and providers
-Bring available resources together to resolve problems or deliver professional services
-Develop business opportunities to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, technology, skills, and
procedures
Professional role of a DH: clinician ✔Correct Answer--Use dental hygiene process of care to
control oral diseases and partner with clients to promote health
-Provide care to clients based on evidence-based decision making and skill
-Collaborate with and refer to other healthcare professionals as needed
Professional role of a DH: corporate worker ✔Correct Answer--Apply educational and practice
expertise as sales representatives, product researchers, educators, and administrators to
support various oral healthcare and related industries in providing quality products, services,
and information
, Professional role of a DH: researcher ✔Correct Answer--Conduct original qualitative or
quantitative research
-Develop and implement evidence-based plan to address problems with budgets, expected
outcomes, and evaluation procedures
-Interpret and evaluate research findings and apply finding to practice
Professional role of a DH: educator ✔Correct Answer--Apply educational theory and the
teaching-learning process
-Design and produce instructional materials and media
Professional role of a DH: public health advocate ✔Correct Answer--Address unmet needs of
underserved or groups with special needs
-Deliver care in school-based or community-based settings
Plan, conduct, and evaluate community and public oral health programs
DH process of care ✔Correct Answer-a systematic approach to care used by DH that involve 6
key behaviors
What are the 6 steps in DH process of caer? ✔Correct Answer-assessment, DH diagnosis,
planning, implementation, evaluation, and documentation
DH process of care: assessment ✔Correct Answer-the systematic collection of data to identify
oral and general health status based on client problems, needs, and strengths (includes health
history, clinical assessment, and risk assessments)
DH process of care: DH diagnosis ✔Correct Answer-the use of critical decision-making skills to
reach and communicate conclusions about the client's dental hygiene needs based on all
available assessment data and evidence in the literature (includes referrals to a dentist or other
medical professionals)
DH process of care: planning ✔Correct Answer-the establishment, in collaboration with the
client, of realistic goals and outcome based on client needs, expectations, values, and current
scientific evidence to obtain informed consent and plan dental hygiene interventions to
facilitate optimal oral health (includes collaboration with dentist or other medical professionals)
DH process of care: implementation ✔Correct Answer-delivery of DH services based on the
dental hygiene care plan, including any required modifications, while minimizing risk and
optimizing oral health as well as any needed patient education following treatment for self-care,
follow-up, continuing care, or maintenance
DH process of care: evaluation ✔Correct Answer-use measurable outcomes to review and
assess the outcomes of delivered DH care (and collaboration with a dentist or other medical
professionals)