Oral Health Care: A Whole New Language

Course overview

This course is intended for anyone new to the field of oral healthcare: dental assisting, dental therapy, dental hygiene, dentistry, dental laboratory technology, or anyone already in the field who would like a dental vocabulary refresher. The professionals associated with oral healthcare, most commonly used terms in dentistry will be defined, and memory cues will be provided for most terms. Useful prefixes and suffixes often used to create dental/medical words are presented, as are some common abbreviations.