Dental Hygiene Program Details
Registered dental hygienists are licensed clinicians who work under the direction and supervision of a licensed dentist to provide preventive and therapeutic services for the control of oral diseases.
Eligibility Updates
A reduced cohort will be accepted for the 2023-2025 cohort in response to the Pandemic. We will accept 14 students instead of 24.
Enrollment Eligibility
- DHYG 100 has been removed from enrollment eligibility.
- We now accept ESLWR 340 for enrollment eligibility.
- We now accept MATH 120, MATH 300 or MATH 333 or STAT 300 or STAT 480 or higher for enrollment eligibility.
Recency Requirement
- 7-year recency on science courses:
- BIOL 430 and 431, Anatomy and Physiology
- BIOL 440, General Microbiology
- CHEM 305 and CHEM 306 or CHEM 309
- Once students meet enrollment eligibility and are on the waitlist, the recency requirement will not continue during reapplication years.
- Recency will not apply to students already on the waitlist.
- Implementing change for 2023-2025 cohort.
Online Science Lab Info
Science labs Summer 2022 and forward must have a face-to-face lab. The lecture portion of science courses may be online.
During the COVID-19 campus closures, we were able to accept online science labs because a waiver was temporarily approved. The waiver ended May 2022.
Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Score for Enrollment Eligibility
Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Score Exemption may ONLY be accepted in lieu of these courses:
- ENGWR 300 College Composition or ESLW 340 Advanced Composition
- MATH 120 or MATH 300 or MATH 333 or STAT 300 or STAT 480 or higher
Dental Hygienist Video
Accreditation
The Sacramento City College Dental Hygiene program is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. For more detailed information related to the program, students should consult the current version of the Dental Hygiene Program Handbook. For information about our Infection Control Standards consult the Infection Control Workbook
Information Sessions
The Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene programs hold information sessions on campus early in the semester to answer questions about each program.
Date | Time | Location | Zoom Meeting ID |
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February 14, 2023 | 12:00 pm | Zoom (Online) | 882 6957 0151 |
Contact
Email: Natalie.Lopez@scc.losrios.edu
Phone: 916-558-2356
Job Placement Information for Community Partner Dentists
Contact for Hiring SCC Dental Hygiene Graduates:
SETA/Sacramento Works
Ira Ayers
Workforce Development Professional III
Job Developer
Cell: (916) 926.2529
ira.ayers@seta.net
Science and Allied Health Tutoring Center
Commission on Dental Accreditation
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(800) 621-8099