511-301 Dental Studies 3

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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; occlusion and general practice and diagnosis and treatment planning.

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, and the sequelae of partial or complete loss of the dentition;

• 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; and

• 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

(1) One 2-hour written examination at the end of Semester 1; and (2) Two 3-hour written examinations at the end of the year; a series of practical examinations spread over three days in Semester 2; assessment of clinical, practical and written work throughout the year, plus a 15-minute viva voce examination. A pass in each of the written examinations in Section 2 and in each of the remaining components in Section 2 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

• F A Carranza Jr and M G Newman, Glickman's Clinical Periodontology. 8th ed., Saunders, 1996.
• P W Goaz and S C White, Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation. 3rd ed., Mosby, 1994.
• D M Ranly, A Synopsis of Craniofacial Growth. 2nd ed., Appleton and Lange, 1988.
• A Thylstrup and O Fejerskov, Textbook of Clinical Cariology. 2nd ed., Munksgaard, 1994.