Dental Hygiene, AS

General Education Requirements: 20 Hours*

See Associate Degree General Education Degree Requirements. 

Dental Hygiene Requirements: 74 Hours

• DH 0101 - Fundamentals of Dental Hygiene 2
• DH 0103 - Fundamentals of Dental Hygiene - Lab 2
• DH 0105 - Fundamentals of Instrumentation 2 **
• DH 0120 - Medical Emergencies and Special Needs Patients 1
• DH 0140 - Dental Morphology 1
• DH 0150 - Oral Histology and Embryology 3
• DH 0160 - Dental Radiology 2
• DH 0165 - Dental Radiology Lab 1
• DH 0190 - Clinical Dental Hygiene I 4 **
• DH 0210 - Pain Management 1
• DH 0220 - Dental Materials 1
• DH 0225 - Dental Materials Lab 1
• DH 0280 - Periodontics I 2
• DH 0290 - Clinical Dental Hygiene II 4 **
• DH 0295 - Seminar in Dental Hygiene I 1
• DH 0300 - Community Dental Health Education 3
• DH 0301 - Community Dental Health Education Practicum 1
• DH 0310 - Nutrition 2
• DH 0320 - Pharmacology 2
• DH 0340 - Oral Pathology 3
• DH 0350 - Periodontics II 2
• DH 0390 - Clinical Dental Hygiene III 4 **
• DH 0395 - Senior Seminar in Dental Hygiene 1
• BIO 0121 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I 4
• BIO 0221 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II 5 **
• BIO 0231 - General and Medical Microbiology 5 **
• BIO 0240 - Radiation Biology 3
• CHEM 0120 - Chemistry for the Allied Health Sciences 5 *
• SOC 0110 - Introduction to Sociology 3 *
• PSY 0100 - General Psychology 3 *

Total: 94 Hours

*General Education Requirements met by the following Dental Hygiene degree requirements SOC or PSY (3 cr. hrs.) and CHEM 0120  (5 cr. hrs.) or BIO 0121  (4 cr. hrs.).
**See course descriptions for prerequisites.
Associate of Science degree students must meet the Missouri Constitution Requirement by completing PSC 0120  or the Missouri Constitution Test.