As a dental hygiene student, you can get practical, hands on experience while helping our community! Our clinic provides quality dental care at an affordable price, including free dental hygiene evaluations.
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During summer term between your first and second year, you’ll have the opportunity to take an optional Cooperative Education internship in Clinical Dental Hygiene at Lane’s dental clinic.
Lane’s Dental Hygiene program will prepare you for state licensure throughout the United States and for a rewarding career in a high demand field.
After you complete prerequisite classes and get accepted into the Lane’s Dental Hygiene program, you learn the training and skills to be ready for employment in a wide-variety of dental care settings, incorporating lecture with hands-on lab and clinical experiences, as well as preparation for national and state board exams.
2 years Full-time $50,097 Full programGraduates will receive an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Dental Hygiene. Graduation from this two-year program makes you eligible for state licensure throughout the United States, which is required in order to practice dental hygiene. Students begin taking national board examinations while enrolled in the second year of the Dental Hygiene program.
Lane has an articulation agreement with Oregon Institute of Technology, providing program graduates the opportunity to continue on to earn a bachelors of science degree in Dental Hygiene. Prerequisite coursework for this degree can be taken while completing general education requirements at Lane. If you’re interested in transferring, you should check the Oregon Institute of Technology’s Dental Hygiene Program for current transfer requirements, and work with your advisor to develop a transfer plan.
Lane’s Dental Hygiene program is fully accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation and has been granted an accreditation status of "approval without reporting requirements".
The first year of the program includes 6-14 hours per week of lab, pre-clinical and clinical instruction. The second year of the program includes 17-22 hours per week of clinical instruction. First year is listed above.
In your second year of the program, you’ll begin clinical courses and learn how to:
Experiential learning is an important aspect of the Dental Hygiene program. As a student, you’ll be able to participate in off-campus experiences with community clinics, school-based screenings, presentations for health fairs, treatment of specialty populations at distance clinical sites, and inter-professional collaboration and visitations to local specialty and general dentistry offices/clinics.
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As a Dental Hygiene student, you’ll use state-of-the-art dental equipment in our brand-new dental lab on Lane’s main campus, and gain experience and confidence at the college Dental Clinic on Willamette Street in Eugene. Some of the equipment you’ll use includes:
Notice to students and prospective students:
This program and career includes exposure to bloodborne pathogens and infectious diseases. Training is included to protect both students and patients.
Dental Hygiene courses are limited to a maximum of 20 students. Your clinical lab courses will have a ratio of just one teacher to five students, to ensure you receive individual attention while developing your clinical skills. Dental Hygiene instructors get to know you, and they provide you with the personal attention required for mastering the clinical skills and helping you finish the program successfully. Our faculty have extensive clinical and teaching experience, and they bring those experiences to the classroom. Throughout your experience at Lane, you’ll never take a class with more than 40 students, and your class will always be taught by an instructor, not a grad student.
