Course Content and Outcome Guide for DA 133
- Date:
- 17-NOV-2011
- Posted by:
- Josette Beach
- Course Number:
- DA 133
- Course Title:
- Dental Materials II (Lab)
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab hours:
- 0
- Lab hours:
- 0
- Special Fee:
- $24
Course Description
Students continue to develop skills in the handling and manipulation of dental materials as described in the DA 132 lecture.Addendum to Course Description
Prerequisite: Successful completion of DA 130 with a C or better, or have department permission to register.
Intended Outcomes for the course
1. Demonstrate the proper handling and safe use of materials used in fabrication and placement of dental restorations.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
DA 133:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the proper use and handling of dental materials through the completion of lab projects.
2. Demonstrate compliance with safety procedures at all times.
3. Transfer skills to clinical applications on campus and at OHSU School of Dentistry rotation.
1. Demonstrate understanding of the proper use and handling of dental materials through the completion of lab projects.
2. Demonstrate compliance with safety procedures at all times.
3. Transfer skills to clinical applications on campus and at OHSU School of Dentistry rotation.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes, Concepts and Issues
Cements, bases and liners
Crowns and fixed bridges
Investment materials
Casting procedures for inlays and crowns
The use of ceramics in dentistry.
Endodontic procedures
Soft denture relines
New technologies used in dentistry
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
1. Demonstrate adherence to laboratory standards and safety protocols in the laboratory.
2. Fabricate a custom tray for use in bleaching procedures and explain the steps in a vital tooth bleaching procedure.
3. Transfer dental materials knowledge and skills to DA 119 Expanded Functions I.
4. Explain the selection and purpose of, and demonstrate the manipulation of a selected group of cements, bases, liners and varnishes.
5. Explain the characteristics, properties and uses of the many types of metallic restorations fabricated in the lab and cemented into the oral cavity.
6. Discuss investment materials and describe the processes used during casting procedures.
7. Describe the types of ceramics used in dentistry and observe stacking and firing of a porcelain crown in the dental technology lab.
8. Describe and demonstrate the fabrication and cementation of temporary crowns on a typodont.
9. Discuss the purpose and types of temporary cements and demonstrate the placement of temporary restorative material on a typodont in the laboratory setting.
10. Perform a root canal procedure on a typodont tooth.
14. Perform a temporary denture reline.
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 4Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate the proper handling and safe use of materials used in fabrication and placement of dental restorations.
Activities:
Apply knowledge of angles and measurement during orthodontic model trimming.
Communication
Hours: 2Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate the proper handling and safe use of materials used in fabrication and placement of dental restorations.
Activities:
Round Table discussion about experiences in rotations at OHSU. Self Evaluation of lab projects and presentation to instructor of results of results of evaluations.
Human Relations
Hours: 9Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate the proper handling and safe use of materials used in fabrication and placement of dental restorations.
Activities:
Interactions with patients, dental students and other dental professionals during weekly rotations at OHSU School of Dentistry.
Students work in teams on lab assignments to include peer evaluation by utilizing concepts and skills previously introduced in DA 131 and DA 111.