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925 N. La Brea Avenue, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90038
CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED
LADS Continuing Education Course Jan 23, 2018 | Maggiano’s 4:30 - 9pm
California Dental Practice Act and Infection Control
To familiarize attendees with the dental hygiene practice act and regulations which govern the practice of dentistry. This
course will review dental practice act of dentists, dental assistants, and specialty categories, registered dental assistant,
registered dental assistant with expanded functions, registered dental hygienist, and registered dental hygienist in alternative
practice. Attendees will receive the knowledge to help them make correct legal and ethical decisions to solve problems that
may arise while practicing dentistry.
The participant will be able to complete the course with a clear knowledge of the regulatory requirements for minimum
standards in Infection Control as required by regulation. The participant, upon completion of the course, will possess a clear
understanding of the regulations, processes, and procedures necessary to comply with the regulations and will be able to
assess their level of learning and mastery of the course content through workplace application.
Lygia Jolley, RDH, BA has been licensed as a practicing Registered Dental Hygienist since 1986, and for the past 15 years as a full-time
educator for San Joaquin Valley College Dental Hygiene Program in Visalia, California. She instructs the following courses: Radiology, Law
and Ethics, Local Anesthesia, Dental Materials and assists in teaching Pre-clinic Lab, and Clinic. She is a Past President of California Dental
Hygienists’ Association. She has served as CDHA Immediate Past President, President, President Elect, CDHA Secretary/Treasurer, ADHA
delegate, VP of Administration and Public Relations, CDHA Trustee and component president. She taught part-time at Fresno City College as a
radiology lab and clinical instructor for 6 years, and practiced dental hygiene in the San Fernando Valley and the Central Valley areas for 17
years. She graduated from the Dental Hygiene program of Fresno City College in 1986, and is a 2004 graduate of Fresno Pacific University
where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Organizational Development. She has been married for 25 years, and is a
Mother of 2 sons and a daughter. In her little bits of spare time she focuses on her family, playing piano and organ, doing church activities,
and reading fun books that have nothing to do with dental hygiene, and watching or going to football, baseball or basketball games.
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