| Unit name | Dental Skills Year 2 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ORDS20008 |
| Credit points | 30 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Daud |
| 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 and anterior 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.
Applied Dental Materials will be an integrated part of the this element
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:
1. Develop skills for handpiece manipulation and basic instrumentation techniques within the oral cavity for periodontology and for operative dentistry and endodontics
2. Understand and be able to apply appropriate charting systems for teeth and periodontal disease.
3. Have a knowledge of the consequences of tooth loss and ways of replacing missing teeth with their relative merits.
4. Be able to describe how removable dental prostheses are constructed and be familiar with laboratory denture construction techniques
Students should acquire the skills and attributes necessary for:
1. Selecting appropriate restorative materials and techniques for the restoration of teeth with all types of cavity.
2. Demonstrating a knowledge and understanding of the principles of crown preparation and impression techniques.
3. Performing adequately the technical procedures involved in the construction of extra-coronal crowns.
4. Describing the progress of caries and relating its progress over time.
5. Applying a problem solving ability to operative dentistry procedures and demonstrating eye to hand co-ordination, mirror vision and control of hand and rotary instruments.
Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia
Students should obtain a knowledge and understanding of the following:
● the technique of infiltration local analgesia and regional block analgesia
● the maximum safe doses of local analgesic agents that should be administered along with the prevention and management of complications of local analgesia
The student should acquire the skills and attributes necessary for:
● using the equipment required to administer local analgesia for dentistry including assembling and dismantling a local analgesic syringe
● the technique of administering an infiltration analgesic and also an inferior alveolar nerve block local analgesia under clinical supervision
Restorative Skills Year 2
Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia:
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:
Year 2 OSCE - This will cover questions in Periodontology, Operative Dentistry, Prosthetic Dentistry, Dental Assisting, Pain and anxiety and communication skills. Contributes 100 % to the Unit mark.
Formative Assessments:
Continuous Simulated Clinical Assessment during the Operative Dentistry teaching.
MCQ’s during prosthetic teaching:
Dental Pain and Anxiety Year 2: Local Analgesia
Will be tested as part of the OSCE
Students must achieve 50% of the available marks to pass the Unit.
Restorative Skills 1
Understanding Periodontal Diseases: Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures; Edited by: Lain L C Chapple, Angela D Gilbert, Date of publication: November-02
Dental Pain and Anxiety 2: Local Analgesia
