511-216 Oral Health Sciences 2A

This subject is comprised of 3 modules:

Oral Medicine and Pathology: Healing and repair in the oral cavity; developmental abnormalities of the dentition; microbiology, biochemistry and pathology of caries and periodontal diseases; pigmentation of the oral mucosa; oral ulcerations; premalignant oral lesions; cysts of the oral region; dysplasia and neoplasia of the oral mucosa; odontogenic neoplasms; dermatological and salivary gland disorders; infectious diseases and specific oral infections; oral manifestations of haematological disorders; antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic agents.

Pharmacology and Pain Management: Analgesics; local anaesthetic agents and drug schedules; the pharmacology of local analgesia; applied anatomy relevant to local analgesia, administration of infiltration and inferior dental nerve block analgesia, complications of local analgesia and the management of dental pain.

Oral Biology: the causation, natural history, clinical appearance and prevention of dental caries and periodontal diseases and the treatment of periodontal diseases; the biochemistry of teeth, supporting structures and saliva.

(1) One 3-hour written examination at the end of first semester and (2) One 15-minute viva voce examination and competency based practical assessment. A pass in the viva voce and practical assessment is required to proceed to clinical work in Semester 2. A pass in Section 1 is required for an overall pass in this subject.

• RA Cawson and EW Odell, Essentials of Oral Pathology and Medicine. 6th edn, OU Press, 1998.
• R Dionne and JC Phero (eds), Management of Pain and Anxiety in Dental Practice. 2nd edn, Elsevier, 1993.
• JV Soames and JC Southam, Oral Pathology. 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, 1993.
• OAC Ibsen and JA Phelan, Oral Pathology for the Dental Hygienist. 2nd edn, Saunders, 1996.
• C Scully and RA Cawson, Medical Problems in Dentistry. 5th edn, Elsevier, Churchill Livingstone.
• SF Malamed, Handbook of Local Anaesthesia. 4th edn, Mosby, 1994.
• WR Tyldesley and EA Field, Oral Medicine. 4th edn, Oxford Medical, 1995.
• NJ Vardaxis, Pathology for the Health Sciences. MacMillan, Australia, 1994 (reprint 2000).
• D Wray, GD Lowe, SH Dagg, DH Felix, and C Scully, Textbook of General and Oral Medicine. Churchill Livingstone, 1999.