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511-201 Dental Studies 2

Year 2 Dental Science.

Contact: 266 hours, including lectures, clinical and laboratory work.

Timetable: Double semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject, students should:

Comprehend: the principles of the relationship between oral health, behaviour and oral diseases; the processes of somatic, physiological and psychological growth and development; the properties and uses of dental materials; the range of oral functions and the principles involved in protecting oral tissues against diseases and the maintenance of oral functional integrity.

Have developed: skills in understanding and counselling people; skills in assessing growth and development; skills in using dental materials; skills in identifying oral functions; skills in intercepting diseases in the periodontium, enamel, dentine and pulp and the effects of partial edentulousness; skills in the prevention of sports injuries.

Appreciate: the importance of history-taking, diagnosis and records for success in patient care; the principles of clinical practice; the implications of behaviour in the delivery of dental care; the desirability of the maintenance of oral health in treated patients.

Content:

Preventive Dentistry and Community Dental Health, Growth Studies, Clinical Dental Sciences, Dental Materials Science, Cariology, Oral Function, Operative Technique and Oral Protection, and Periodontology.

Assessment:

A 2-hour written examination at the end of each semester (35 per cent each); written assignments and laboratory reports during the year (20 per cent) and clinical work assignments through the year (10 per cent). Viva voce examinations in special cases.

Students will be permitted to proceed to clinical work ONLY after having satisfactorily completed the preclinical units.

Prescribed texts:

• Horsted-Bindler P and Mjor I A 1988 Modern Concepts in Operative Dentistry Munksgaard
• Lindhe J 1989 Textbook of Clinical Periodontology 2nd edition Munksgaard
• Phillips R W 1991 Skinner's Science of Dental Materials 9th edition Saunders
• Kidd E A M and Smith B G N 1990 Pickard's Manual of Operative Dentistry 6th edition Oxford Medical

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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