Dental school training courses in Baltimore, MD (public, in-house or online)

To become a dental hygienist, you must be licensed as an oral health professional to provide educational, preventive, and clinical therapeutic services to the public. At Fortis, our dental hygiene program prepares students to sit for a licensure exam after graduation to qualify to work as an entry-level hygienist. This can be an excellent career path for those with the aptitude and desire to get the proper training.

At Fortis, our dental assistant program will provide you with hands-on strategies and techniques to work in the treatment or operation room directly with the dentist. Students will be shown how to work chair-side as dentists examine and treat patients. Dental Assistants can work in private and group dental practices, specialty dental practices, mobile dental units, insurance companies, hospitals, nursing homes, dental school clinics, and public and private health facilities.

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Required Courses:
Dental Assistant Chair Side Techniques
Oral Radiography
†HIPAA Training, CPR and First Aid
classes REQUIRE 100% attendance.
Students arriving late to class will not be
admitted. Lateness to, or early exit from
class will also result in a failing grade and
no refund. Students will then be required
to retake the class at their expense.

The Dental Hygiene program is a selective admissions program and enrollment in the program is competitive and limited by the availability of seats. The information contained in the links to the left will help you prepare for application and entry to the program.

The Baltimore City Community College’s Associate Applied Science Degree Dental Hygiene Program is designed to prepare beginning graduates to assume careers as Registered Dental Hygienist in a variety of health care settings. The program is accredited through the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation with the status of "Approval (without reporting requirements). This accreditation classification is granted to an educational program indicating that the program achieves or exceeds the basic r...

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