511-207 Management of Compromised Patients

Credit Points

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Semester

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Subject Description

This subject covers the management of patients with a range of disabilities.

On completion of this subject, the student should:

• comprehend the behavioural and management aspects of people with chronic and acute medical problems, physical, sensory or intellectual disabilities, and who are homebound, hospitalised and institutionalised; and the disease processes related to the dental management of patients with medical conditions and the oral manifestations of systemic disease;

• appreciate the diversity of people within the community and the responsibility and problems in delivering dental care to them; and

• have developed sufficient technical skill to provide oral hygiene instructions to, and remove calculus and plaque from, a range of patients with disabilities.

Assessment

One 2-hour written examination at the end of Semester 2; and written assignments and practical reports throughout the semester.

Prescribed Texts

• J W Little, D A Falace, C S Miller and N L Rhodus, Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient. 5th ed., Mosby, 1997.
• D Wray, G D Lowe, S H Dagg, D H Felix, C Scully, Textbook of General and Oral Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, 1999.