511-301 Dental Studies 3

Note

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

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject covers the following areas: community dental health; preventive dentistry; growth studies and orthodontics; radiography and radiology; introductory medical and surgical principles; local analgesia; conservative dentistry; periodontics; endodontics; removable prosthodontics; general practice and diagnosis and treatment planning; and occlusal analysis.

On completion of this subject, students should:

Comprehend: the application of epidemiology to solving public health problems, caries preventive measures, normal and abnormal growth, radiography and radiation protection, clinical use of dental materials, principles of medicine and surgery, pain control, patient management, operative treatment of teeth, the sequelae of partial or complete loss of the dentition, and occlusal analysis.

Have developed: skills in collection, analysis and presentation of oral health data, communication and counselling, examination diagnosis and treatment planning for simple cases, intra-oral radiography, local analgesia, conservative treatment of dental caries and periodontal diseases, and treatment of edentulous and partially dentate patients.

Appreciate: the needs and difficulties associated with instituting effective preventive programs at an individual and community level; the concepts of total patient care and the dentist's responsibility for the safe and effective management of persons in the dental situation; the need for precision, accuracy and self-evaluation.

Assessment

One 90-minute written examination at the end of first semester (10%); two 3-hour written examinations at the end of the year (25% each); clinical, practical and written work throughout the year (20%); a 15-minute viva voce examination (10%); specific written assignments (no more than 3, 10%).

Prescribed Texts

• Goaz P W and White S C 1994, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation. 3rd ed. Mosby.
• Thylstrup A and Fejerskov O 1994, Textbook of Clinical Cariology. 2nd ed. Munksgaard.
• Horsted-Bindslev P and Mjor I A 1988, Modern Concepts in Operative Dentistry. Munksgaard.
• Kidd E A M and Smith B G N 1996, Pickard's Manual of Operative Dentistry. 7th ed. Oxford Medical.
• Ranly D M 1988, A Synopsis of Craniofacial Growth. 2nd ed. Appleton and Lange.
• Carranza F A J M and Newman M G 1996, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology. 8th ed. Saunders.