The Professional Dental Hygienist

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American Dental Hygienists' Association

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ADHA

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Canadian Dental Hygienists' Association

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CDHA

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International Federation Of Dental Hygienists

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IFDH

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The dentist has diagnosed and authorized the condition to be treated, remains on the primises while the procedure is preformed, and approves the work performed before dismissal of the patient.

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Direct Supervision

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the skills, understanding, and professional values of an individual ready for beginning dental hygiene practice

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Competency

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Term used to describe the relationships between patient, dentist, and dental hygienist when coordinating the efforts to attain and maintain the oral health of the patient.

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Cotherapist

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The science and practice of the prevention of oral diseases

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Dental Hygiene Care

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The services within the framework of the total treatment plan to be carried out by the dental hygienist

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Dental Hygiene care plan

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Identification of an existing or potential oral health problem that a dental hygienist is qualified and licensed to treat

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Dental hygiene diagnosis

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State of physical, mental,and social well-being, not only the absence of diease

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Health

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The process of enabling people to increase control and improve their health though self-care, mutual aid, and the creation of healthy environments

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Health promotion

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The science of health and its preservayion; a condition or practice, such as cleanliness, that is conductive to the preservation of health

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Hygiene

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An action taken by a dental hygienist to maintain or restore a patient's optimal health

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Oral hygiene

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Acceptance for licensure by a regulatory body

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License by credential

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Employs the techniques and agents to abort the onset of disease, to reverse the progress of the initial stages of disease, or to arrest the disease process before treatment becomes necessary

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Primary healthcare

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A forecast of the probable course and outcome of the treatment of a condition or disease

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Prognosis

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The science of the prevention and treatment of oral disease through the provision of educational, assessment, preventive, clinical, and other threapeutic services in a collaborative working relationship with a consulting dentist, but without general supervision.

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Collaborative Practice of Dental Hygiene

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"The father of Dental Hygiene"

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Dr. Alfred C. Fones

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The dentist has authorized the procedure, but does not nedd to be present when the authorized procedure is carried out

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General supervision

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While the dentist is personally treating a patient, the dental hygienist is authorized to aid in the treatment by concurrently performing a supportive procedure

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Personal supervision

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Educator, researcher, administrator,advocate, and clinician

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The scope of dental hygiene practice

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Includes assessment, dental hygiene diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. As a process the procedures performed are continual in nature and mat overlap or occur simultaneously.

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The dental hygiene process of care

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To provide a framework within which individualized needs of the patient can be met, to identify the causative or influencing factors of a condition that can be reduced, eliminated, or prevented by the dental hygienist

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Purposes of the dental hygiene process of care

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Culturally sensitive delivery of dental hygiene services can make a postive difference in oral health outcomes for all patients.

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Culture considerations- the ability to provide effective oral health education and dental hygiene services for culurally diverse patients requires the ability to assess, be sensitive to, and to respect each patients culture.