Course description
Speaker(s): Lisa Clarke, Senior DCP Teaching Fellow, University of Portsmouth Dental Academy
Description:
Covering minimally invasive and conservative principles of practice, this hands-on training day will explore options for restoring all forms of diseased and broken-down teeth using contemporary dental biomaterials. This course is aimed at dental therapists wishing to keep up-to-date with new developments or requirements but is also suitable for others returning to clinical practice after a career break.
Aims:
Overall aim:
To improve the predictability of direct restorations.
Specific aims:
1. To provide practitioners with an opportunity to practice clinical skills in a simulated environment.
2. To increase practitioners’ direct restorative skills.
3. To increase practitioners’ knowledge of contemporary dental biomaterials.
Objectives:
1. To explain how scientific developments in cariology, dental materials and diagnostic systems have changed dentistry’s approach to the diagnosis and management of dental caries.
2. To outline the changing concepts in cavity preparation, bonding, filling and polishing techniques.
3. To provide demonstrations and tips in direct restorative dentistry techniques.
4. To assess the available methods of caries risk assessment.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Use an evidence-based conservative approach to assist in clinical decision making for direct restorative dentistry.
2. Use minimal cavity preparation design, techniques and biomaterials to restore teeth with direct restorations.
3. Apply the appropriate evidence to manage all forms of diseased and broken-down teeth using a range of material and techniques.
4. Use a caries risk assessment protocol to provide an effective caries preventive regime.
Development Outcomes: C
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