511-217 Oral Health Sciences 2B

This subject is comprised of 3 modules.

Management of Compromised Patients: Management of patients with speech pathology; cardiovascular conditions; respiratory disease; endocrine, haematological, neurological, psychiatric and neoplastic disoders; and intellectual, physical and sensory disabilities.

Oral Biology: Molecular nature of odontogenesis and biomineralisation, calcium phosphate chemistry and oral diseases and mucosal immunity including periodontal diseases; history taking, examination, diagnosis and treatment planning in the clinical context.

(1) One 2-hour written examination at the end of second semester and (2) An interactive presentation together with a written report at the end of the semester. A pass in each of Sections 1 and 2 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. Mosby, 2004.
• 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 and Livingstone, 1999.