| CODE | ORC4132 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Seminars in Oral Rehabilitation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Oral Rehabilitation and Community Care | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This synoptic study-unit provides students with revision of established principles of Restorative Dentistry and Oral Rehabilitation, and exposure to emerging concepts and techniques in the discipline. The study unit will rely on a case-based learning approach so as to consolidate the knowledge obtained in previous study units, and in order to prepare the student for the final examination and clinical practice. Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this study unit are: - Develop the students' knowledge towards achieving an integrated approach to planning and executing a restorative treatment plan and an overall competence in providing dental services. - Revise the theory focusing on patients' oral rehabilitation care. Case based learning will be the main form of teaching and students will be encouraged to bring their own cases for class discussion. - Integrate taught theories and practices carried out in previous years, reinforcing a comprehensive learning outcome that will support the student development towards the achievement of overall professional competencies in Restorative Dentistry and Oral Rehabilitation. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Interpret and correlate findings from the history, clinical and radiographic examinations, and other diagnostic tests, taking into account the social and cultural background of the individual - Discuss and defend clinical reasoning and judgment in order to develop a differential, provisional or definitive diagnosis - Explain the design and laboratory procedures used in the delivery of fixed and removable prostheses - Describe the principles and techniques of aesthetic treatments including differences between patient expectations and achievable results - Describe the techniques and limitations (risks and benefits) of restorative procedures - Integrate restorative procedures and preventive measures in the rehabilitation of patients - Identify complex cases beyond their competencies. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Obtain informed consent from the patient - Recognize the presence of systemic disease and know how the disease and its treatment affects the delivery of dental care. - Identify the location, extent and degree of activity of dental caries and tooth wear. - Diagnose abnormalities in dental or periodontal anatomic form that compromise periodontal health, function or aesthetics - Identify conditions which require management - Form a treatment plan - Identify and manage pulpal conditions that require treatment - Determine a patient鈥檚 aesthetic requirements and determine the degree to which those requirements can be met - Identify and restore carious, defective and/or missing teeth to acceptable form, function and aesthetics in patients of all ages - Design direct and indirect restorations, anterior and posterior crowns, post crowns, simple bridges, complete and partial dentures and occlusal splints - Integrate preventive measures in the holistic rehabilitation of patients - Recognize those treatments that are beyond his/her skills and need to be referred to a specialist. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - 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 - McCabe, J.F, Walls AWG. Applied dental materials. 9th Ed-2013. ISBN: 111869712X, 9781118697122 - O鈥橞rien, William J. Dental materials and their selection. 4th Ed-2008. ISBN: 9780867154375. - Banerjee A, Watson TF. Pickard鈥檚 Manual of Operative Dentistry. 9th Ed, 2011. ISBN: 0199579156, 9780199579150 - V Clerehugh, A Tugnait & J Genco . Periodontology at a Glance ISBN:1118691334, 9781118691335 - Clinical Guide to Periodontology 2nd ed.RM Palmer & PD Floyd - Pitt Ford TR. Harty's Endodontics in Clinical Practice. 7th Ed- 2017 ISBN: 0702058351, 9780702058356 - Stewart鈥檚 clinical removable partial prosthodontics / Rodney D., Phoenix, David R. Cagna, Charles F. DeFreest. Edition 4th ed. Quintessence Pub., 2008. ISBN 9780867154856 - Shillingburg H. et al. Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics. Third Edition. Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc 1997 Supplementary Readings: - Noort, Richard van. Introduction to dental materials. 3rd Ed-2007. ISBN: 9780723434047. - Mitchell, Christina. Dental materials in operative dentistry. Quintessentials of Dental Practice - 2008. ISBN: 9781850971290. - Garg N, Garg A. Textbook of Operative Dentistry. 2010. - Kidd EAM. Essentials of Dental Caries: the disease and its management. 2nd Ed, 1997. - Periodontics 6th ed. BM. Eley, M Soory & JD Manson - Clinical problem solving in Periodontology & Implantology - Francis J. Hughes, Kevin G. Seymour, Wendy Turner, Shakel Shahdad, Francis Nohl - Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry 5th ed. J Lindhe, NP Lang & T Karring - Carranza's Clinical Periodontology 11th ed. by MG Newman,H Takei, PR. Klokkevold, MS Fermin & A Carranza - Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation & Advanced root Instrumentation 6th ed. JS Nield-Gehrig - Prosthodontic Treatment for Partially Edentulous Patients. Zarb, Bergman, Clayton and McKay. Mosby 1984 - A Textbook of Occlusion. Mohl, Zarb et al. Edition 3rd ed. Quintessence Pub., 1991. ISBN 0-86715-167-6 - Tronstad L. Clinical Endodontics : a textbook . 3rd Ed- 2009. ISBN: 9783137681038. Available at Health Sciences Library. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-units: RDN2102, RDN3101, ORC3100, ORC4030, ORC4040 Please note that a pass in all assessment components is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nikolai Attard William Borg Adrienne Busuttil Dennis Cutajar Elizabeth Martinelli Rebecca Sammut |
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