Course description

This course will build on Dental Practice I, II and III and provide experience in clinical general practice dentistry in the simulated and clinical environments. This course focuses on provision of clinical care to adult & adolescent patients, and introduces patients with greater levels of complexity in terms of medical or social factors and dental conditions. Students will commence seeing patients with more challenging behavioural issues including children. Students will attain competence in examination, diagnosis, pain management, preventive oral health care, periodontal therapy, intra-coronal restorative dentistry, endodontics (including multi-rooted teeth), fixed and removable prosthodontics, dentoalveolar surgical procedures and orthodontic assessment and diagnosis. Each week, students will have 3hr of pre-clinical laboratories, 9hr of clinical work and 3hr of observation/assisting in a 2nd or 3rd year student clinic. Dental Practice IVA and Dental Practice IVB consist of rotations through the disciplines listed above. This course operates over an extended semester in order to provide 17 weeks of clinical practice.

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