MCCC’s Dental Hygiene students create mouth guards for MCCC’s student athletes

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The course is approved for Pennsylvania dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants. To earn continuing education credits, attendees must attend five table clinic presentations and complete a brief evaluation form on each presentation.

Students started classes on Aug. 29 at Montgomery County Community College, and as the fall semester gets underway, our student athletes are on the fields practicing for their first games of the season.

To help prevent dental injuries for our student athletes, MCCC’s dental hygiene students are creating custom-fitted mouth guards for them, starting with members of the men’s soccer team on Sept. 10. The mouthpieces will provide protection for students from face and jaw injuries, bruising and concussions.

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This new collaboration benefits both our student athletes, who will receive the best type of protective devices to prevent and/or reduce the impact of sports-related injuries, and our dental hygiene students, who have the opportunity to use their skills and knowledge to take impressions and create mouth guards that will be used.

As part of the curriculum for the Dental Hygiene Program, second-year students learn how to take impressions and create models during their summer classes. They will be using their knowledge and skills to help student athletes by creating custom-fitted mouth guards. Custom-made mouth guards provide the best protection for athletes and help to prevent face and jaw injuries, bruising and concussions. The Dental Hygiene students will take impressions of the men’s soccer team on Monday, Sept. 10, in the Dental Hygiene Clinic and then will take impressions of the women’s soccer team, as well as other team members throughout the year.

MCCC’s Dental Hygiene Program prepares students to work as dental hygienists in a variety of settings and to provide preventative and therapeutic oral care to the public. Students receive extensive, hands-on training at MCCC’s state-of-the-art Health Sciences Center and gain clinical experience at community-based sites. The Dental Hygiene Program is fully accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

MCCC’s Athletics Program include three intercollegiate men’s teams (soccer, basketball and baseball), four intercollegiate women’s teams (soccer, volleyball, basketball and softball) and 16 intramural sports.

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