511-301 Dental Studies 3

Credit Points

Coordinator

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject covers: community dental health; preventive dentistry; growth studies and orthodontics; radiography and radiology; introductory medical and surgical principles; periodontics; endodontics; removable prosthodontics; fixed 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 dental 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, counselling and patient management; clinical oral examination diagnosis and treatment planning of simple cases; intra-oral radiography and local analgesia administration. Also have developed psychomotor skills in conservative treatment of dental caries and periodontal diseases; and clinical skills for 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; need for precision, accuracy and self-evaluation.

Assessment

(A) One 2-hour written examination at the end of Semester 1 in community dental health, periodontics, radiography and radiology (15%); (B) One 3-hour written examination at the end of the year in endodontics, fixed prosthodontics, removable prosthodontics, occlusal analysis (20%); (C) One 3-hour written examination at the end of the year in growth studies and introductory orthodontics, preventive dentistry, general practice and diagnosis and treatment planning (20%); (D) A series of practical examinations spread over three (3) days after the end-of-year written examinations involving fixed prosthodontics, removable prosthodontics, endodontics and operative dentistry (20%); (E) Assessment of each student's clinical, practical and written work throughout the year (20%); and (F) One 15-minute viva voce examination on clinical practice and diagnosis and treatment planning (5%). A pass in each of B, C, D and E is required for an overall pass in the subject Additional tests, including viva voce and/or practical examinations, may be required.

Students will be permitted to proceed to clinical work ONLY after having satisfactorily completed the preclinical units. Students will NOT be permitted to continue with clinical work if progress in the clinic is unsatisfactory.

Prescribed Texts

• Carranza F A Jr and Newman M G 1996, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology. 8th ed. Saunders.
• Goaz P W and White S C 1994, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation. 3rd ed. Mosby.
• Ranly D M 1988, A Synopsis of Craniofacial Growth. 2nd ed. Appleton and Lange.
• Thylstrup A and Fejerskov O 1994, Textbook of Clinical Cariology. 2nd ed. Munksgaard.
• Williams D M, Hughes F S, Odell E W and Farthing P M 1992, Pathology of Periodontal Disease. Oxford University Press.
• Wilson T G and Kornman K S 1996, Fundamentals of Periodontics. Quintessence.