California Dental Hygienist CEU Package 12-Hours
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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The California Dental Practice Act 2
Course release date: 2/1/2025
Course Overview
Although its primary objective is to safeguard the public, the California Dental Practice Act is an excellent resource for dental professionals to ensure compliance with state law. The California Dental Practice Act is the body of laws in the California Business and Professions Code and the California Code of Regulations governing dental professionals, including dentists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, dental assistants, and dental hygienists. The Act is intended to serve as a legal guideline for both professionals and the public regarding all aspects of dental practice. -
Infection Control for Dental Professionals The California Requirement 2
Course release date: 2/1/2025
Course Overview
Effective infection control techniques are critical to reducing the incidence of infections in dental facilities. Antiseptic techniques and antibiotics will kill micro-organisms, while proper hand hygiene will block their transmission. Gloves, gowns, and masks remove dental professionals from the transmission cycle by protecting them from contact with micro-organisms. Contact Precautions and isolation techniques help patients avoid being vectors of transmission. Lastly, ensuring that dental professionals are immune or vaccinated can help decrease the availability of potential hosts. -
Caries-Prone Patients: Prevention, Assessment, and Interventions, 3rd Edition 4
Course release date: 7/1/2024
Course Overview
The impact of nutrition on the caries process is known in the dental field, but dental professionals need to continue to convey the importance of this relationship to patients. Working as partners with patients, dental professionals can aid in the prevention of dental caries and help maintain patients’ overall health by offering nutritional counseling and behavior modification techniques. Parents must be educated about the unique oral health needs of children and adolescents and the importance of establishing optimal oral hygiene habits at an early age. The incidence of caries in the United States could decrease significantly as dental professionals implement the advances available for early caries detection, recommend anti-caries treatments, and offer nutritional analysis and counseling. It is also essential that dental professionals provide customized oral hygiene regimens and education for their patients. This basic-level course is intended to equip all members of the dental team with the skills needed to realize this overriding goal.
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Oral Health Issues for the Female Patient, 4th Edition 4
Course release date: 7/1/2024
Course Overview
Oral health encompasses the craniofacial complex and includes the teeth, periodontium, mucosa, gingiva, oral pharynx, temporomandibular joints, and muscles used for mastication. Although men and women face many common oral health issues, it is no longer acceptable to consider oral health to be gender neutral. Indeed, women differ from men in their oral health needs and concerns. This basic-level course explores the variables affecting women’s oral health and discusses the issues and concerns that dental professionals face in providing care to females across their lifespan.