Regency Dental Hygiene Academy Inc.

Regency Dental Hygiene Academy (RDHA) offers a teaching program devoted solely to dental hygiene education and leading to a diploma. It is presented in 3 equal semesters of 23 weeks each.

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 library rooms, 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 based on the dental hygiene process of care, 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

• Computer Skills and Application

• Dental Hygiene Principles I

• Dental Office Procedures

• Dental Radiography

• English and Communication

• Microbiology

• Oral and Dental Anatomy

• Oral Embryology and Histology

• Pharmacology

• Prevention and Nutrition I

• Professionalism I

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

• Multiculturalism in Health Care

• Professionalism II

• Research in Dental Hygiene