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DOH122 Foundations of Dental Practice 1B (12)

Abstract

This subject is a continuation of Foundations of Clinical Dental Practice 1A. The knowledge and skills base of students is further developed in the areas of clinical dentistry and core physics and chemistry. Theory, laboratory and simulation laboratory based learning and training is extended to encompass the ongoing study and manipulation of dental materials, restorative cavity preparation techniques, caries control procedures, oral disease risk assessment, the taking and basic interpretation of dental radiographs and the management of simple periodontal disease. Towards the latter part of the session students are introduced to patients and patient history taking in a clinical setting. Study of chemistry and physics continues with a focus on thermodynamics, oxidation-reduction and organic chemistry, and on the common health care applications of physical concepts.

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Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
One sessionHD/FLSchool of Dentistry and Health Sciences

Enrolment restrictions

Restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Dental Science course.
Prerequisite(s)Incompatible subject(s)
DOH121CHM102 CHM107

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
# Be able to demonstrate an expanded knowledge of the scope of practice and the methods and applications of research.
# Be able to demonstrate basic skills in the selection of dental materials and their applications to restorative dentistry in a simulated clinical setting.
# Be able to demonstrate skills in specified cavity preparations and their restoration.
# Be able to demonstrate basic diagnostic and case management skills in the contexts of caries and simple periodontal disease.
# Be able to describe the clinical applications of basic dental diagnostic tests.
# Be able to demonstrate basic radiographic and interpretive skills in a simulated clinical environment.
# Be able to demonstrate basic skills in patient history taking and its interpretation
# Be able to demonstrate continued competence in clinical and laboratory infection control protocols.
# Be able to demonstrate understanding of the three laws of thermodynamics and be able to perform thermodynamic calculations.
# Be able to demonstrate understanding of the underlying concepts of oxidation - reduction reactions, including balancing redox equations, using the Nernst equation and calculating Gibbs free energies and equilibrium constants from electrochemical data.
# Be able to demonstrate an awareness of the catenation ability of the element carbon, the nature of covalent molecules and their chemical properties and nomenclature.
# Be able to recognise the various classes of organic compounds, the type of bonding within them and the various forms of isomerisation;
# Be able to describe a selected range of standard chemical transformations between common organic functional groups;
# Be able to describe common applications of mechanical force, heat, electricity, fluids and radiation to health care.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
Professional Issues # ethical practice # scope of practice # practice management Introduction to Scholarship # research methods # research processes such as critical appraisal and literature reviews # qualitative and quantitative statistics Introduction to client care & communication # Communication skills # Simulated foundation dental assessment, examination and intervention skills, including o Dental imaging o Dental biomaterials science o Impressions o Hand and rotary instrumentation o Operative dentistry # client record keeping # nomenclature and terminology used in the Australian Health Care system. Foundation chemistry # Thermodynamics, enthalpy and entropy; # Reduction-oxidation reactions and applications, reduction potentials, electrochemical cells, Nernst equation; # Carbon chemistry and covalent bonding, sigma and pi bonds, hybridisation, resonance, polarity, types of isomerisation; # Hydrocarbons and their properties, mechanisms of halogenation, electrophilic addition, aromatic compounds and their substitution chemistry; # Reaction chemistry and interconversion of alcohols, phenols, ethers, halides, aldehydes, ketones, amines, carboxylic acids and derivatives. Foundation physical sciences # Physical concepts of mechanical force, heat, electricity, fluids and radiation and their common applications to health care.

Work Place Learning

This subject contains a Workplace Learning component. Please contact the subject coordinator for further information.

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.