Dental Disciplines B (DENT3071)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2017
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
School
Dentistry School
Units
4
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class hours
6 Clinic hours
9 Contact hours
Prerequisite
DENT3070
Companion
DENT3061
Assessment methods
Progressive clinical assessment, quizzes, assignments, written examination, clinical assessment.
Course enquiries
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | Herston | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
This course continues a student's exposure to the specialist dental disciplines. Students will consolidate skills and competence in history taking, assessment, recognition, diagnosis, care planning and aspects of management for conditions commonly managed within the dental specialties including prosthodontics, endodontics, dentomaxillofacial radiology, oral medicine, oral surgery and orthodontics. Students will begin to acquire knowledge and an appreciation of aspects of children¿s dentistry and special needs dentistry. To support their understanding and clinical skills in these areas students will explore aspects of human and oral diseases, general medicine and surgery, analgesia and anesthesia, dental pharmacology and therapeutics, the human life cycle, growth and development, disability and medical compromise. Each week students will undertake approximately 6 hours of clinical patient care including provision of care, dental assisting and observations and 9 hours of competency building activities such as lectures, seminars, problem-based learning, workshops, self-directed activities and pre-clinical simulation exercises. This course assumes approximately 3 hours of self-directed learning each week.