511-201 Dental Studies 2

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Subject Description

This subject covers the following areas: preventive dentistry and community dental health; growth studies; dental materials science; cariology; oral function and occlusion; oral biology; operative dentistry; and periodontology.

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; in assessing growth and development; in using dental materials; in identifying oral functions; in intercepting diseases in the periodontium, enamel, dentine and pulp and the effects of partial edentulousness; 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.

Assessment

A 2-hour written examination at the end of each semester (35% each); written assignments, laboratory reports, and clinical and practical work assignments throughout the year (30%). 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-Bindslev P and Mjor I A 1988, Modern Concepts in Operative Dentistry. Munksgaard.
• Phillips R W 1991, Skinner's Science of Dental Materials. 9th ed. Saunders.
• Kidd E A M and Smith B G N 1996, Pickard's Manual of Operative Dentistry. 7th ed. Oxford Medical.