NWCCD Catalog 2025-2026 
  
    Mar 09, 2025  
NWCCD Catalog 2025-2026
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DHYG 3770 - Pain Management


This course provides coursework experience with local anesthesia and inhalation sedation techniques. It includes the detection of anatomic landmarks in the mouth pertaining to specific injection sites, preparation of the armamentarium, maintenance of asepsis, simulated and real injection of anesthetic agents at predetermined sites and administration of nitrous oxide/oxygen.
Prerequisites: Sequence of coursework is established by the dental hygiene program.
Co-requisites: DHYG 3775 Pain Management Lab
Minimum Credits: 2
Grading: Letter



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