Course Information
Description
The purpose of this course is to provide the concepts, skills development, and clinical skills/practice to facilitate the diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical management of active dental disease. Case materials encompassing emergency/acute disease will be used to introduce cross-disciplinary concepts including endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, pediatrics, and operative dentistry. These concepts will be reinforced with relevant textual material and topics. Through the process of discovery, the students will translate case experiences into the skills development arena in the laboratory and to clinical skills in clinical practice. The initial phase of treatment includes the treatment of acute and emergency situations. Cases will be presented that represent a variety of these clinical situations. The student clinicians will begin to identify the clinical and diagnostic skills to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment plan. Important concepts in pain control and the administration of anesthetic will translate into the clinical cases, facilitating students and their patients to enter into the treatment phase. The treatment concepts of caries removal/temporization, pulpectomy/pulpotomy, scaling and root planning, simple restorations, incisions and drainage, biopsies, and extractions will be introduced through problem-based and learning-based formats. These concepts will be enhanced in a skills development arena in the laboratory where exercises will be practiced on odontotypes and pig jaws. Clinical skills will be introduced through supervised exercises on fellow students, and finally student clinicians will move to their clinic teams to begin the treatment of patients.
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