511-401 Dental Studies 4

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Subject Description

This subject covers the following areas: cariology; 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; general practice. This subject also includes a component on a supervised, group research project.

On completion of this subject, students should:

Comprehend: the use of drugs in dentistry, differential diagnoses of oral diseases, the principles of extra-oral radiography and radiology, normal and abnormal growth, the principles of orthodontics, the relationship between oral and general health in elderly persons, the potential for control of dental caries and periodontal diseases by preventive strategies, and the delivery and evaluation of dental care in public and private sectors.

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 need for the dentist to provide leadership in advocating and practising total patient care.

Assessment

Three 3-hour written examinations at the end of the year (20% each = 60%); general practice clinical work (10%); general practice treatment planning examination (10%); two essays (15%); other written, practical and assignment work (5%).

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 1994, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation. 3rd 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 ed. 1994, Self Assessment Picture Tests in Dentistry: Pediatric Dentistry. Wolfe.
• Lindhe J 1989, Textbook of Clinical Periodontology. 2nd ed. Munksgaard.
• Carranza F A J M and Newman M G 1996, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology. 8th ed. Saunders.