511-401 Dental Studies 4

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Subject Description:

This subject covers the following areas: clinical oral therapeutics and oral medicine; radiography and radiology; oral diagnosis and treatment planning; applied behavioural science; preventive dentistry, gerodontics, community dental health, growth studies and orthodontics; applied basic sciences; fixed prosthodontics; periodontics; paediatric dentistry; endodontics; oral and maxillofacial surgery; removable prosthodontics and general practice. This subject also includes a component on a supervised, group research project. One session of three hours per week is allocated in second semester in fourth year and first semester in fifth year for completion of the research project. Further information on the project and facilities is provided by the supervisors.

On completion of this subject, students should:

Comprehend: the applications and use of pharmacological agents in the practice of dentistry; the differential diagnoses of oral diseases and the use of special diagnostic procedures; the principles of extra-oral radiography and radiology; the management of the psychological and psycho-social features encountered in dental practice and dental health education; the diversity of factors associated with the prevention of dental caries and periodontal diseases and the potential for their control; the delivery and evaluation of dental care in both public and private sectors; normal and abnormal growth and development, including behavioural growth; the biomechanical principles of orthodontics; the theory and practice of total patient care for both dentate and edentulous individuals; the relationship between oral and general health in elderly persons and the role of the dental profession in the advocacy of health for all including elderly persons.

Have developed: the communication and psychomotor skills necessary for providing total patient care in a general dental practice setting; skills in critical listening and case presentation; skills in the prevention of sports injuries to the mouth.

Appreciate: the concept and practice of ongoing total patient care in the prevention, identification, assessment and treatment of oral diseases - as opposed to the episodic management of symptomatic oral problems; the concept and practice of maintaining oral health; the need for the dentist to provide leadership in advocating and practising total patient care; an awareness of the range of differing dental health care needs of individuals and groups within the community and the diversity of the methods needed to provide them; that dental health is an integral part of general health.

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Prescribed Texts:

• Howe G L 1990, The Extraction of Teeth, revised 3rd ed. Wright.
• Howe G L 1985, Minor Oral Surgery, 3rd ed. Wright.
• Goaz P W and White S C 1987, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation, 2nd ed. Mosby.
• McDonald R E and Avery D L 1994, Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent, 6th ed. Mosby.
• Lewis M A O and Lamey P J 1993, Clinical Oral Medicine, Wright.
• Tyldesley W R and Field E A 1995, Oral Medicine, 4th ed. Oxford Medical.
• Shaw L 1994, Self Assessment Tests in Pediatric Dentistry, Wolfe.
• Lindhe J 1989, Textbook of Clinical Periodontology, 2nd ed. Munksgaard.
• Carranza F A and Newman M G 1996, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology, 8th ed. Saunders.