Program Information

Applications to the Clinical Dental Hygiene program are available each year in January.
Obtain application form for the dental hygiene program and complete by March 31st of the year admission is sought.
Arrangements must be made to have official transcripts sent by each college attended. These should be sent directly to the dental hygiene program by March 31st of the year in which admission to the program is sought.
A personal interview with the Dental Hygiene Admissions Committee is required.
Two confidential recommendations must be submitted directly to the Dental Hygiene program. At least one recommendation by one of applicants’ instructors.
Students must complete a minimum of 12 semester credit hours at Southern University at Shreveport. No exceptions will be made to this regulation.
Students must have earned a minimum of a 2.8 uncorrected cumulative grade point average on a (4.0 scale) in all previous college course work.
Students must have earned a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average on a (4.0 scale) in the required science courses for the program.
All selections will be made after the end of the Spring semester, once a year.
An official copy of the candidate’s scores on the Test for Essential Academic Skills (TEAS TEST). Score of 70% or better is required.
All Science courses must be completed within 5 years prior to the semester of application to the dental hygiene program.
Student must complete the following prerequisite courses by the end of the Spring semester at the time the application is submitted to the dental hygiene program. A grade of “C” or better is required in these courses:

Prerequisites

DHYG 101S	Introduction to Dental Hygiene	DHYG 222S	Anatomy and Physiology Lecture II
DHYG 222S	Anatomy and Physiology Lecture I	DHYG 222L	Anatomy and Physiology Lab II
DHYG 220SL	Anatomy and Physiology Lab I	CHEM 129S	General Chemistry
DHYG 200S	Microbiology Lecture	MATH 121S	Precalculus Algebra
DHYG 200SL	Microbiology Lab	PSYC 201S	Psychology
SOCL 210S	Sociology	SCOM 210S	Fundamentals of Speech
ENG 110S	English

Transfer students must contact a SUSLA advisor prior to registering for classes to be taken at SUSLA or any other institution. Courses taken at other institutions prior to attending SUSLA will be articulated. If courses taken at another institution do not transfer, the course on the dental hygiene degree plan must be taken. Transfer students must complete 12 hours at SUSLA prior to applying to the dental hygiene program.