Clinical Experience
The Germanna Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting Programs partner with the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic to provide preventative dental hygiene services as well as restorative services. This service is offered so that the students may fulfill the clinical requirements of their college degree program. Students work with patients under the supervision of a registered dental hygienist and/or dentists. All work is checked carefully and frequently by instructors who are registered dental hygienists, assistants or licensed dentists.
Anyone interested in becoming a patient must qualify for services at the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic. Please contact eligibility services at (540) 741–1061.
Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic
1301 Sam Perry Boulevard
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
The clinic is normally open Monday to Thursday.
Appointments
For an appointment, please call (540) 741–3709 to be placed on the treatment request list. Should you get the voicemail, please leave your name, address, and phone number. The Dental Care Coordinator will call you to confirm eligibility and/or schedule an appointment.
Appointment Cancellations
Please make cancellations 24–48 hours in advance so that students have time to schedule another patient and fulfill their academic requirements.
Expect to spend 3 to 4 hours for your initial and subsequent appointments. Remember that the student’s work must be checked at each step by an instructor and that students may tend to work more slowly and more thoroughly because they are being graded. Complete treatment may involve more than one appointment.
Available services
The following are available services at Northern Virginia/Germanna College’s Dental Hygiene Clinic:
- Taking and recording of vital signs
- Oral examinations and oral cancer screenings
- Charting of oral conditions
- Assessment and charting of periodontal conditions
- Positioning, exposing, and processing of radiographs
- Dental hygiene treatment planning
- Plaque indices
- Oral health education and nutritional counseling
- Periodontal scaling and root planing
- Ultrasonic scaling
- Coronal polishing
- Air abrasive polishing
- Application of pit and fissure sealants
- Fluoride treatments
- Application of chemotherapeutic agents
- Pain management
- Polishing of restorations
- Cleaning removable appliances and prostheses
- Evaluation of dental hygiene services
Currently, services are provided at no charge to the patient. Several visits may be necessary to complete patient care. The Dental Hygiene Students receive the necessary training during classroom and preclinical/laboratory sessions before performing these services on patients.