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ممارسة طب الأسنان (1) - Dental Clinical Practice (1)

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DENT 341 ممارسة طب الأسنان (1) - Dental Clinical Practice (1) 5 DENT 214 , DENT 231

Course Outline:

The course involves dental clinics for operative, periodontics, endodontics, and, fixed and removable prosthesis and primary care. In this course, students should restore and treat cases for both first three specialties and in the same time dealing with the patients when they come to the clinic asking for primary care treatment. The student in this course is allowed to treat any carious lesions including anterior and posterior teeth. Regarding periodontics, the student is allowed to do scaling and root planning, and some advanced types of treatments. The course deals with the basic principles of complete denture fabrication as well as the diagnosis and treatment of a completely edentulous patient.

Course Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, student should be able to:
1.       Outline infection-control guidelines, law, ethics and professionalism policies.
2.      Recognize the dental clinical instruments (both hand and powered forms) and become familiar with various clinical techniques.
3.      Utilize critical thinking skills.
4.      Develop decision making and problem-solving skills in clinical situations.
5.      Interpret the clinical finding and the investigations to properly plan treatment for the patient.
6.      Perform successful examination of the gingiva and periodontium using the periodontal chart, perform supragingival scaling and restore cavities with proper techniques and clinical steps.
7.      Apply principles of professionalism and the principles of instrumentation and diagnosis for good dental practice
8.     Establish good communication and empathy with the patients, leadership and teamwork.

References:

1.       Clinical periodontology and implant dentistry: Jan lindhe ,Thorkild karring, Niklaus peter lang. 4th ed. 2003.
2.      Cowson’s (2004). Essential Of Oral Pathology And Oral Medicine, 8th edition.
3.      Crispian Scully (2008). Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, 2nd edition, Edinburgh London New York Oxford Philadelphia St Louis Sydney Toronto.
4.      Hargreaves K. and Cohen S., (2014). Pathways of the pulp. Mosby 10th edition.
5.      Torabinijad, M (2009). Endodontics: Principles and Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences, 4th edition
6.      Sturtevant’s Art and Science of Operative Dentistry, 6th edition. Theodore M. Roberson, Harold O. Heymann and Edward J. Swift
7.      Fundamentals of Operative dentistry, 3rd edition. Jammes B Summit, Richard s Shwartz.