Unit name | Primary Care Dentistry Year 2 |
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Unit code | ORDS20022 |
Credit points | 0 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Mrs. Julie Mallinson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Bristol Dental School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to prepare and introduce students to the clinical dental setting. The unit is comprised of the following 4 elements and has the following general aims:
Element of Periodontology
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.
Element of Introduction to Clinical Management and Teamworking
Term 2
To provide students with an appreciation of working as part of a dental team and enable understanding of individual roles and responsibilities.
To enable students to develop a range of communication skills using appropriate verbal and written methods, including gaining an understanding of the importance of maintaining good clinical records and the use of the clinical e-portfolio system.
To provide students with the essential skills to act as a dental operator and assistant in the clinical setting.
To prepare students for clinical patient care in basic history taking, extra and intra-oral examination, the recognition and non-surgical management of periodontal disease non-surgically, including oral hygiene instruction and root surface debridement.
Element of Dental Pain & Anxiety Management Yr 2: Local Analgesia
Term 2
To produce a student who will have acquired sufficient knowledge and skill to administer local analgesia under supervision.
Element of Patient Care
Term 3
To produce a student who has acquired sufficient knowledge and skills to safely carry out a basic history and examination for an adult patient, recognise and non-surgically manage periodontal disease, including oral hygiene instruction, scaling and root surface debridement.
To produce a student who has acquired sufficient knowledge and skills to safely and effectively assist patient care in the clinical setting.
At the end of Year 2 a successful student should be able to:
Periodontology
Introduction to clinical management and teamworking
Dental Pain & Anxiety Management
Students should obtain a knowledge and understanding of the following:
The student should acquire the skills and attributes necessary for:
Patient care
Didactic lectures, tutorial and small group teaching. Simulated clinical scenarios, chairside teaching during supervised direct patient care.
Formative Assessments:
Clinical Competency Assessment in periodontology:
Demonstrating they have sufficient basic skills to carry out a periodontal examination and control instrumentation with good technique, finger rests and seating position.
Continuous assessment on clinic using a predetermined standard clinical assessment scheme with immediate feedback to the student. Each student to complete a logbook/portfolio during the course with opportunity to reflect on progress during and at the end of the Unit. Student’s overall performance will be monitored and discussed at termly School Progress Committee meetings.
Summative assessments:
The summative assessments for the Primary Care Dentistry Yr 2 Unit fall within the combined Dental Skills/PCD ‘Capstone’ Assessment.
• Department of Health. Heath Technical Memorandum 01-05: Decontamination in primary care dental practices. Department of Health. 2nd Ed. 2013.
• General Dental Council. Standards for dental professionals. General Dental Council 2013
• British society of Periodontology. Young practitioners guide to periodontology. 2012.
• British society of periodontology. Basic Periodontal Examination (BPE). 2011.
• British society of periodontology. Guidelines for periodontal screening and management of children and adolescent under 18 years of age. 2012.
• Armitage G. Periodontal diagnoses and classification of periodontal disease. Periodontol 2000 2004; 34: 9-21.
• Chapple ILC, Gilbert AD. Understanding Periodontal Diseases: Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures. Quintessence 2002. ISBN: 978-1-85097-053-8.
• Chapple ILC, Hamburger J. Periodontal medicine: A window on the body. Quintessence 2006. ISBN: 978-1-85097-079-8
• Heasman PA, Preshaw PM, Robertson P. Successful periodontal therapy: A non-surgical approach. Quintessence 2004. ISBN: 978-1-85097-074-3.
• Clinical periodontology and implant dentistry (5th Ed) Jan Lindhe, Niklaus P Lang, Thorkild Karring; Wiley Blackwell, 2008
• 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