DTH3253: CLINICAL PLACEMENT I FOR DENTAL THERAPY I

This module is designed to provide the student with competencies of carrying out intraoral examination including periodontal charting, dental scaling, root planning, making good cavity preparations and restorations, administering local and regional anaesthesia, performing simple extractions, suturing, incision and drainage, carrying out fissure sealants, topical fluoride and varnish application, brushing and flossing teeth on models and phantom heads, as well as on simulated patients before they start clinical work on real patients.  Students will also get acquainted with common clinical preventive dentistry instruments and equipment, periodontal instruments and equipment, common clinical restorative instruments and equipment as well as common surgical instruments and equipment.