| CODE | ORC4130 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Seminars in Oral Rehabilitation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Oral Rehabilitation and Community Care | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | In this study-unit, students will be exposed to established principles of Oral Rehabilitation and to emerging concepts and techniques in the discipline. The study-unit will rely on a case-based learning approach so as to consolidate the knowledge obtained in previous study-units, and in order to prepare the student for clinical practice. Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: - Students' development towards achieving an integrated approach to planning and executing a treatment plan and an overall competence in providing dental services. - Knowledge and theory focusing on patients' care. Case based learning will be the main form of teaching and students will be encouraged to bring their own cases for class discussion. - The study-unit will also focus on Osseointegration- its role in Dentistry and the clinical steps necessary in providing tissue-integrated prostheses. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Interpret and correlate findings from the history, clinical and radiographic examination and other diagnostic tests, taking into account the social and cultural background of the individual. - Discuss and defend clinical reasoning and judgment in order to develop a differential, provisional or definitive diagnosis. - Discuss how to form a diagnosis and treatment plan for patients of all ages. - Explain the design and laboratory procedure used in the production of crowns, bridges, partial and complete dentures. - Describe the principles and techniques of aesthetic treatments including differences between patient expectations and achievable results. - Discuss the principles and techniques involved in the use of osseointegrated implants for tissue-integrated prostheses. - Describe the techniques and limitations (risks and benefits) of dental technological procedures. - Describe the handling of dental materials in restoring the dentition. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Obtain informed consent, e.g for operative procedures. - Recognize the presence of systemic disease and know how the disease and its treatment affects the delivery of dental care. - Identify the location, extent and degree of activity of dental caries and tooth wear. - Diagnose abnormalities in dental or periodontal anatomic form that compromise periodontal health, function or aesthetics. - Identify conditions which require management. - Form a treatment plan. - Distinguish the difference between pulpal health and disease. - Identify and manage pulpal conditions that require treatment. - Determine a patient’s aesthetic requirements and determine the degree to which those requirements can be met. - Identify and restore carious, defective and/or missing teeth to acceptable form, function and aesthetics in patients of all ages. - Design direct and indirect restorations, various prostheses and occlusal splints. - Recognize those treatments that are beyond his/her skills and need to be referred to a specialist. - Refer a patient for specialist treatment. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous Patients- Complete Dentures and Implant-Supported Prostheses. Editors: Zarb, Hobkirk, Eckert and Jacob; 13th Edition. ISBN 978-0-323-07844-3 - McCabe, J.F, Walls AWG. Applied dental materials. 8th Ed-1998. ISBN: 0-632-04208-7 - O’Brien, William J. Dental materials and their selection. 4th Ed-2008. ISBN: 9780867154375 - Banerjee A, Watson TF. Pickard’s Manual of Operative Dentistry. 9th Ed, 2011. (Required reading - suggested to buy) - Periodontology at a Glance. V Clerehugh, A Tugnait & J Genco. - Clinical Guide to Periodontology. 2nd ed.RM Palmer & PD Floyd. - Pitt Ford TR. Harty's Endodontics in Clinical Practice. 5th Ed- 2004. ISBN: 0-7236-1089-4 - Stewart’s clinical removable partial prosthodontics / Rodney D., Phoenix, David R. Cagna, Charles F. DeFreest. Edition 4th ed. Quintessence Pub., 2008. ISBN 9780867154856 - Removable Partial Dentures. Manual compiled by Profs N. Attard and G.A. Zarb. (Available from Prof Attard) - Shillingburg H. et al. Fundamentals of Fixed Prosthodontics. Third Edition.Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc 1997. Supplementary Readings: - Noort, Richard van. Introduction to dental materials. 3rd Ed-2007. ISBN: 9780723434047 - Mitchell, Christina. Dental materials in operative dentistry. Quintessentials of Dental Practice - 2008. ISBN: 9781850971290. - Garg N, Garg A. Textbook of Operative Dentistry. 2010. (Suggested to borrow for supplementary reading) - Kidd EAM. Essentials of Dental Caries: the disease and its management. 2nd Ed, 1997. (suggested to borrow for supplementary reading) - Periodontics. 6th ed. BM. Eley, M Soory & JD Manson. - Clinical problem solving in Periodontology & Implantology. Francis J. Hughes, Kevin G. Seymour, Wendy Turner, Shakel Shahdad, Francis Nohl. - Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. 5th ed. J Lindhe, NP Lang & T Karring. - Carranza's Clinical Periodontology. 11th ed. by MG Newman,H Takei, PR. Klokkevold, MS Fermin & A Carranza. - Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation & Advanced root Instrumentation. 6th ed. JS Nield-Gehrig. - Prosthodontic Treatment for Partially Edentulous Patients. Zarb, Bergman, Clayton and McKay. Mosby 1984. - A Textbook of Occlusion. Mohl, Zarb et al. Edition 3rd ed. Quintessence Pub., 1991. ISBN 0-86715-167-6. - Tronstad L. Clinical Endodontics : a textbook . 3rd Ed- 2009. ISBN: 9783137681038. - Introducing Dental Implants. Hobkirk, Watson, Searson. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST PASS ORC4030 AND PASS ORC4034 AND PASS ORC4040 AND PASS RDN4034 | ||||||||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Co-requisite Study-unit: RDN4135 Please note that a pass in all assessment components is obligatory for an overall pass mark to be awarded. Attendance to scheduled sessions, inclusive of lectures/tutorials, practical, laboratory and clinical components is compulsory. Students who do not attend at least 90% of the scheduled sessions will not be allowed to sit for any of the assessment components mentioned below. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study and Project | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Nikolai Attard Adrienne Busuttil Dennis Cutajar Elizabeth Martinelli David Paul Mifsud Edward Sammut |
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