Students of the Dental Hygiene program are prepared to perform preventive dental hygiene procedures including dental prophylaxis, dental radiographs, topical fluorides, anxiety and pain control procedures, oral health education, infection control procedures and dental office procedures. The A.A.S. program is offered in two formats: Full-Time: 5 semesters of full-time weekday courses, Monday-Friday; Part-Time: 6 semesters of part-time evening and weekend courses. They complete this training in a state-of-the-art clinical setting, the Community Dental Clinic at Plaza College. The Clinic is a community-based clinic that accepts all patients requesting dental hygiene services with no qualifying criteria. Students treat patients in the clinic under the supervision of licensed dentists and dental hygienists.