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Preclinic Curriculum Technology

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Digital Dentistry

3D Dental Technology

The Pre-Clinic Curriculum

Cariology and Direct Restoration

  • Together these laboratory courses introduce students to the non-surgical and surgical treatment of dental caries including contemporary concepts in the practice of direct restorative dentistry, resin composite and glass ionomer restorations.

Indirect Restoration

  • Course covers clinical and laboratory procedures involved in fabrication of restorations including inlays, onlays, full coverage crowns, partial fixed dental prosthesis and custom made posts.

Endodontics

  • This endodontic laboratory technique course provides the initial phase of laboratory and clinical education program in endodontics. 
  • Topics include: use of instruments and materials in non-surgical treatment, pulpal anatomy and interpretation of radiographs, non-surgical endodontic treatment of uncomplicated non-molar and molar teeth.

Preclinical Lab and Dental Anatomy

  • Course is designed to develop technical and discriminatory skills with regard to dental anatomy. 
  • Anatomical and functional differences of teeth and how they relate are presented. 
  • Students will develop skills to replicate the morphological characteristics of the dentition.

Preclinical Basic Skills

  • The course emphasizes dental anatomy and preclinical basic skills using virtual images of human teeth allowing students to understand the internal anatomy, and introduces skills of virtual wax-up of anterior and posterior teeth.

Introduction to Digital Dentistry

  • The course introduces proper positioning of patient and operator, maintenance and use of dental hand and rotary instruments to develop manual dexterity skills for tooth preparation and other applications. 
  • Other topics: intraoral scanning (Planmeca), Compare software to evaluate tooth preparation.

Complete Removable Dental Prosthesis

  • The course introduces the clinical and laboratory procedures involved in design and fabrication of the complete denture for endentulous patients.

Partial Removable Dental Prosthesis

  • The course introduces the clinical and laboratory procedures involved in design and fabrication of a partial removable dental prostheses (partial denture) including: survey of diagnostic casts, partial denture framework design, tooth modifications, final impressioning on a typodont, pouring of master casts, and communication of framework design to a laboratory technician.

Implant Dentistry

  • The implant dentistry course provides the basic knowledge for treating patients in need of dental implants. 
  • The course introduces the basic restorative and surgical skills needed in implant dentistry.