Employees will look for soft skill upon hiring a dental hygienist. It is just as essential to have soft skills as it is to have technical skills in order to be an effective dental hygienist. 

A CDT code is

Clinical records are assets to the dental practice.  They provide legal value by providing evidence of treatment and business transactions.

Which of the following are considered when using the D4910 CDT code?

Communication mastery is essential to the relationship between between hygienist and patient, hygienist and doctor, and doctor and patient. Good communication comes from the heart and is delivered compassionately with a moral and ethical intention.

A young girl named Sarah reports to your office. She has just lost her last deciduous tooth and has all four twelve year molars present already. A lot of teeth have light to moderate calculus present.  How much time should you schedule her for?

How much time should be scheduled with you for the debridement debridement and what code should you use for it?

Leadership – self confidence; good communication and positive attitude; flexibility and adaptability or ability to accept and learn from criticism are some of the soft skills discussed in class.  List 3 remaining soft skills that are important for the dental hygienist.  

Ema, home from college is your 9:00 AM patient. She has very good home-care. She has 28 teeth present, a crown on # 30 and an implant on #8 (she lost the tooth from a sports accident, she should have worn her mouth guard recommended by her hygienist). What CDT code are you going to bill out today for her debridement/cleaning portion of her appointment today?

All of the following are characteristics of successful risk taking except