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Dental Hygiene

Noel Kelsch RDHAP, MS Daniel Donoghue Student Sierra Partridge

• Health care professionals who focus on preventing and treating oral diseases to protect teeth, gums and

patient’s overall health.

• Can work in a variety of settings from public health settings to hospitals.
• Must graduate from accredited college & university with dental hygiene education programs.
• Licensed oral health professionals – R.D.H.
• Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene has been educating dental Hygienists for 50 years!

Systemic Health All places, All people

Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene Dan’s Story

• Two year program: includes courses in Clinical Assessment, Tooth

Morphology, Oral Health Education, Dental Materials, Oral Pathology, Dental Radiology, Local Anesthesia, Dental Radiographic Interpretation, Law & Ethics, Periodontics, and Community Oral Health.

• The Dental Hygiene Clinic:
• State of the art facility opened in Summer 2010.
• 18 chair computer equipped main clinic.
• 6 chair digitally equipped radiology clinic and

panoramic unit.

• Computerized patient appointment scheduling.
• Dental software instruction and use.

Success in Learning: Sierra’s Story

• Developed Inter-Dispensary Program with Nursing, Radiology Stroke

and Disabilities Center

• Reached out to 18 underserved communities
• 42 students participated in conducting a research project for the

National Institute of Health

• 3 successful research projects completed and accepted for

publication

Success in Learning: Sierra

• 100% passage rate on Clinical and National Boards
• Graduating 20-22 patients a year
• 100% employed making an average of $97,430 a year
• Meet the oral care needs of 3,000 people in our community

Pathways Non Credit courses for Dental Office: 15 Certificates issued to date for Dental Technology

• Building a resume

Pathways program: a way of achieving a specified result; a course of action.

• Dental Terminology
• Dental Law and Ethics
• Dental Insurance
• Dental Technology 1 and 2

Success in Progression of the Program Noel Kelsch: My Story

• Raised the necessary funding to keep the program open
• Added on additional full time temporary position starting September

2018

• Reached out to area Federally Qualified Health Centers developed a
• cooperative. They pay for faculty. We supply 2nd year students.

Freeing up TUs

• Approved as Remediation School for all Schools in California
• Approved to do outside rotations

Success in Progression of the Program

• Raised fees to match a percentage of the industry (Average 20%)
• Developed Inter-Dispensary Program with Medical Assisting, Nursing,

Radiology Stroke and Disabilities Center, Physical Education

• Developed a state of the art hands on Continuing Education program

utilizing campus resources including support from Marketing, Extension, Facilities, IT

• Marketing to all 50 States! Earning an average of $40,000 a course for

Expanded duties course

• Support: CTE and Workforce Development, Grant Department,

Foundation Marketing

Plans for the future

• Self Sustaining
• Increase number of FT faculty
• Increase number of chairs by 3 so that we can increase FTEs
• Add Chair and portable X-Ray Unit to the Stroke and Disabilities

Center to meet the needs of the community and increase the venues in students education

• Guided Pathways: Infection Control Coordinator Course
• Dentist from UOP supplying dental care
• Expanding Hands On Course to Weekend Retreat

Your Program

Please come to see for yourself