Provider name:

Florence-Darlington Technical College

Provider description:

Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) is a public, two-year institution within the South Carolina Technical College System. Serving Florence, Darlington, and Marion counties, FDTC offers associate degrees, diplomas, and certificate programs designed to prepare students for immediate employment or transfer to four-year institutions. The college is committed to workforce development and provides accessible, high-quality education through on-campus, online, and hybrid learning formats.

Program name:

Dental Hygiene

Program description:

The Dental Hygiene program is an Associate’s Degree program that is five semesters in length and is comprised of didactic, clinical, and laboratory courses offered at the Health Science Campus. Students will experience real-life patient interactions through clinical courses and will have the opportunity to work with a variety of patients of diverse backgrounds. Students will also have the opportunity to hone their clinical skills in an on-site, fully- functioning, dental hygiene clinic. Dental hygiene students will be able to study and practice all procedures they will be licensed to perform, including scaling (cleaning) teeth above and below the gum-line, polishing structures above the gum-line, performing infiltration anesthetic procedures, teaching oral hygiene instruction, nutritional counseling, and performing all duties of an Expanded-Duty Dental Assistant.

Program URL:

https://www.fdtc.edu/academics/programs/detail/Dental-Hygiene-AAS/

Description of business partnerships:

Year first offered:

1973

Student teacher ratio:

1:5

If any, what are the prerequisites for this program?

Course(s)

Total Cost:

$24342.84