Course Description
This course is designed to introduce the second year dental students to Operative Dentistry as a health care science. The student will study the elementary concepts of tooth structure, dental caries, and pathological loss of tooth structure due to carious and non-carious lesions. Basic principles of cavity preparation for pathologically damaged tooth structure will be presented and applied. It will build on the knowledge and techniques learned from the dental anatomy and dental histology courses.
Main Objectives
This course introduces to Operative Dentistry as a basic branch of Oral& dental health care. Basic terminology in operative dentistry, carious and non-carious lesions affecting hard tooth structure, instruments and instrumentation will be introduced. The basic skills of dental surgical cutting procedures and cavity preparation based on fundamental recognition of the principles and steps of these procedures will be gained. Effective communication by using the proper nomenclature and vocabulary used in operative dentistry will be mastered as it is a fundamental prerequisite for effective communication during successive courses in operative dentistry and throughout the career. This course is based upon a theoretical (didactic) component and a practical component. The goal is to guide the student reaching an acceptable level of competency in both components as well as identifying the basic problems in operative dentistry and share in decision-making.
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Course ID: RDS 242
Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 2 | 3 | 3 | RDS 231 - RDS 242 |
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