| CODE | ORC3108 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Oral Rehabilitation Clinical Practice 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Oral Rehabilitation and Community Care | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This one-year study-unit introduces students to the clinical practice in the field of Periodontics and Prosthodontics in relation to the rehabilitation of an adult patient. Students will provide edentulous patients with complete dentures. From the prosthodontics side, students will provide edentulous patients with complete dentures. In terms of periodontal treatment students will start to provide preventative treatment and commence periodontal treatment of adult patients. Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to provide the student with the clinical setting to plan and provide complete dentures to edentulous patients and also treat the periodontal needs of edentate adult patients. This study-unit aims to train students to successfully complete treatment of at least 4 edentulous patients alongside the simple initial periodontal therapy on 12 adult patients. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 鈥� Explain the challenges in treating edentulous patients; 鈥� Describe patient clinical charts and presenting complaints in clinical practice; 鈥� Discuss the clinical steps in providing and maintaining complete dentures; 鈥� Discuss gingivitis and periodontitis and the differential diagnosis of these problems; 鈥� Discuss the clinical steps in providing treatment and maintenance of patients with gingivitis and periodontitis. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 鈥� Collect medical and clinical data; 鈥� Interpret correctly patient clinical charts and presenting complaints in clinical practice; 鈥� Communicate with the patient and dental technologist the most appropriate clinical treatment; 鈥� Organise the sequencing of all the clinical steps involved in fabricating and maintaining complete dentures; 鈥� Apply different impressions techniques used in fabrication of complete dentures; 鈥� Apply different jaw relation record procedures; 鈥� Select teeth that are appropriate for the patient's needs; 鈥� Carry out trial wax dentures; 鈥� Provide and maintain complete dentures. Periodontics Component Diagnostics: 鈥� Clinically identify dental plaque; 鈥� Identify through medical history various systemic diseases that contribute to the aetiology of periodontal diseases; 鈥� Identify the clinical features and be able to make a diagnosis of gingivitis and periodontitis and the differential diagnosis of these problems; 鈥� Differentiate between the different conditions that cause acute periodontal lesions; 鈥� Recognise the different skin and mucosal diseases that may cause desquamative gingival lesions and discuss the differential diagnosis of these problems. Periodontal therapy: 鈥� Apply behavioural science techniques to change patient鈥檚 health behaviour in the context of self-performed plaque control and smoking cessation; 鈥� Carry out initial therapy using the correct scaling and root surface debridement techniques (both with hand and power scaling instruments). Minimal clinical requirements: 鈥� 6 new patient periodontal examinations (6 PPC); 鈥� 12 x Oral health advice sessions (including smoking cessation if required); 鈥� 12 x Full mouth supra gingival debridement and prophylaxis. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous Patients- Complete Dentures and Implant-Supported Prostheses. Editors: Zarb, Hobkirk, Eckert and Jacob; 13th Edition. ISBN 978-0-323-07844-3. - Francis J. Hughes, Kevin G. Seymour, Wendy Turner, Shakel Shahdad, Francis Nohl Clinical problem solving in Periodontology & Implantology (2013). |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST PASS DNS2100 AND PASS DNS2103 | ||||||||||||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | A pass in this study-unit is required before registering for ORC4034. Please note that a pass in each assessment component is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. Attendance to scheduled sessions, inclusive of lectures/tutorials, practical, laboratory and clinical components is compulsory. Students who do not attend at least 90% of the scheduled sessions will not be allowed to sit for any of the assessment components mentioned below. The Prosthodontics practical assessment will consist of the following clinical sessions: - Final Impressions - Jaw Registration - Try In - Insertion of Prosthesis |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study & Practical | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stefan Buttigieg Pauline Vassallo |
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