Regency Dental Hygiene Academy Inc.

Regency Dental Hygiene Academy (RDHA) offers a program devoted solely to dental hygiene education and leading to a diploma. It is presented in 3 equal semesters of 25 weeks each (this includes 2 weeks each semester for challenge exams and remediation).

Regency is located at 481 University Ave. Suite 400, Toronto, surrounded by four hospitals and only steps away from the St. Patrick subway station. The teaching facilities include 30 modern clinical operatories, classrooms, laboratories, computer and study labs, as well as x-ray facilities for cephalometric, panoramic, and digital radiography. The course curriculum has been designed to meet the requirements of the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada.

The program is built around the National Dental Hygiene Competencies, and as such, evidence-based instruction supports the pre-clinical and clinical activities.

Community health practicums provide the student with the opportunity to view various community health settings, some of which deal with the mentally and physically disadvantaged, as well as the needs of the general population including geriatric and paediatric entities.

Semester 1

• Clinic 1

• Pre-Clinical Practice

• Anatomy and Physiology

• Dental Hygiene Principles I

• Dental Radiography

• Microbiology

• Oral and Dental Anatomy

• Oral Embryology and Histology

• Pharmacology

• Prevention and Nutrition I

• Professionalism I

• Research

Semester 2

• Clinic 2 – Clinical Practice

• Dental Hygiene Principles II

• Dental Materials Lab

• Health Promotion and Community Health

• Oral Ecology

• Oral Pathology

• Pathophysiology

• Periodontology

• Prevention and Nutrition II

• Psychology of Dental Care

• Radiographic Interpretation

Semester 3

• Clinic 3 – Clinical Practice

• Community Placement

• Dental Hygiene Principles III

• Dental Specialties—seminars offered by external “subject matter experts”

• Multiculturalism in Health Care

• Professionalism II

• Case Study Presentations