Unit name | Dental Skills Year 2 |
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Unit code | ORDS20008 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. West |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Dental School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This Unit of Teaching takes place in Year 2 and will comprise of the following 2 Elements and their general aims:
Restorative Skills Year 2
Term 2
This element will give undergraduate students knowledge, principles and skills to be able to undertake non-surgical management of patients susceptible to periodontal disease.
Additional aims will ensure that students will develop skills for handpiece manipulation within the oral cavity and learn basic instrumentation techniques for supra and subgingival debridement. They will also become familiar with using indices to record periodontal parameters.
Term 3
To provide students with the biological and clinical knowledge underpinning operative dentistry so that they will have acquired the skills to enable them ultimately to enter the clinical teaching programme.
Additional aims will include that students will develop an understanding of the clinical techniques required in the management of cavities in posterior teeth and be able to demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of, and competence in, the construction of extra-coronal restorations.
Term 3
Prosthetic skills deals with the replacement of acquired and congenital defects of dental and other orofacial tissues by means of removable prostheses (dentures). In this element of teaching students should acquire sufficient knowledge and skill to describe how dentures are made.
Additional aims will include ensuring that students have a knowledge of the nature and variety of dental prostheses and how these relate to the applied anatomy in relation to prosthetic dentistry.
Dental Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia
Term 2
To produce a student who will have acquired sufficient knowledge and skill to administer local analgesia under supervision
Restorative Skills Year 2
Students should obtain a knowledge and understanding of the following:
Students should acquire the skills and attributes necessary for:
Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia
Students should obtain a knowledge and understanding of the following:
The student should acquire the skills and attributes necessary for:
Restorative Skills Year 2
Didactic lectures
PowerPoint presentations, Blackboard
Chairside discussion/seminars
Demonstrations of the technical procedures
Lectures
Consolidation session – Group work and discussion
Laboratory demonstrations & practical sessions A self-directed learning handbook is provided to facilitate learning during laboratory sessions. Written material includes E learning tutorials, topic notes and recommended textbooks.
Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia:
Lectures including video presentations
Demonstrations of the technical procedures
Restorative Skills Year 2
Formative Assessments
Clinical Competency Assessment in periodontology:
Demonstrating they have sufficient basic skills to carry out a periodontal examination and control ultrasonic instrumentation with good technique, finger rests and seating position.
Summative Assessments: 95% of the Unit mark.
Year 2 OSCE - This will cover questions in Periodontology, Operative Dentistry, Prosthetic Dentistry and Dental Assisting. Contribute 60% to the element mark.
Weekly MCQ’s during periodontology teaching. Contribute 5% to the Element mark.
Continuous Simulated Clinical Asssessment during the Operative Dentistry teaching. Contribute 25% to the Element mark.
MCQ’s during prosthetic teaching:
Contribute 5% to the Element mark.
Short answer test in Prosthetic Skills. Contribute 5% to the Element mark.
Dental Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia
Summative Assessment: 5% of the Unit mark
MCQ and MSA questions as part of the year 2 progression examination
Students must achieve 50% of the available marks in each Element to pass the Unit.
Restorative Skills 1
Clinical periodontology and implant dentistry (5th Ed) Jan Lindhe, Niklaus P Lang, Thorkild Karring; Wiley Blackwell, 2008
Understanding Periodontal Diseases: Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures; Edited by: Lain L C Chapple, Angela D Gilbert, Date of publication: November-02
Kidd, Edwina A. M. Pickard's manual of operative dentistry. 8th ed. / Edwina A.M. Kidd, Bernard G.N. Smith, Timothy F. Watson. Imprint: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0198503426 Branch: Dental RK501 KID Record number :23 System number [000672547]
Mount, Graham J. Preservation and restoration of tooth structure / Graham J. Mount and W.R Hume ; [foreword by Edwina Kidd].2nd ed. Imprint: Sandgate, Qld. : Knowledge Books and Software, 2005. ISBN: 192082474X Branch: Dental RK501 MOU Record number :20 System number [000675148]
Noort, Richard van. Introduction to dental materials / Richard van Noort.3rd ed. Imprint: Edinburgh : Mosby, 2007. ISBN: 9780723434047 ISBN: 0723434042 Branch: Dental RK652.5 NOO Record number :12 System number [000768209]
Harty, F. J. Harty's endodontics in clinical practice / F. J. Harty ; edited by T. R. Pitt Ford.5th ed. Imprint: Edinburgh : Wright, 2004. ISBN: 0723610894 Branch: Dental RK351 HAR Record number :14 System number [000688010]
Davenport JC et al, A clinical guide to removable partial dentures 2nd ed., BDJ Books, 2000
Davenport JC et al, A clinical guide to removable partial denture design, BDJ Books, 2000
Dental Pain and Anxiety 2: Local Analgesia
Meechan JG, Robb ND, Seymour RA. Pain and Anxiety Control for the Conscious Dental patient. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998. ISBN 0-19-262848-8
Baart JA, Brand HS. Local Anaesthesia in Dentistry. Chichester: Willey-Blackwell 2009. ISBN978-1-4051-8436-6