Specialist Dental Practice 2

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2013:

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Successful completion of all Semester 1 (Teaching Blocks 1 and 2) DDS third year subjects.

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This subject introduces students to the specialty areas of dental practice related to the provision of complex dental care including fixed prosthodontics and implants, clinical prosthodontics including crowns and bridges, overdentures and clinical endodontics. Students will learn about the basic principles and techniques associated with these areas of clinical dental practice. this subject works in combination with the Clinical Dental Practice 5 subject as a means to provide total patient care.

On completion of this subject:

the student should have developed competences to:

• complete an accurate comprehensive examination, diagnosis and treatment plan before commencing the care of a patient requiring a more complex level of treatment;
• perform the more complex aspects of dental treatment procedures and recognise that oral health is an integral part of general health;
• maintain oral health of patients after completion of treatment procedures including those with advanced or complicated problems;
• recognise the need for referral where treatment cannot be successfully managed in a general dental practice or require specialist advice and/or intervention;
• evaluate techniques, peer review processes and apply scientific rigour and principles to the resolution of clinical problems.

the student will have an understanding of concepts related to the principles of:

• intra and extra oral radiology and radiation protection and its appropriate use as a diagnostic tool;
• patient management in the context of more advanced care related to prosthodontics and endodontics;
• conservative management of destructive lesions of the teeth and their supporting structures;
• occlusion and occlusal analysis.

1. 1 x 2 hour written paper on Prosthodontics and Endodontics at the end of Block 4 (40%)
2. 1 x 1 hour OSCE exam on Prosthodontics and Endodontics at the end of Block 4 (40%)
3. Continuing clinical assessment of patient log book throughout Blocks 3 and 4 (20%).

Completion of endodontic treatment on 3 teeth (one of which must be a multi-canal tooth) and completion of fixed prosthodontics treatment of 3 crowns and 1 cast post and core and submission of all endodontic and fixed prosthodontics case logs are required to sit the 2 hour written exam at the end of Block 4.

Rosenstiel ST, Land MF and Fujimoto J 2006 Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics 4th ed, Mosby

Torabinejad M, Walton RE 2009 Endodontics: Principles and Practice 4th ed, Saunders, Philadelphia, Pa., London

Worthington P, Lang BR and Rubenstein, JE 2003 Osseointegration in Dentistry: An Overview, Quintessence

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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