Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Includes an introduction to soft denture relines, suture removal, endodontic materials, and periodontal dressings.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate the proper use, manipulation, application, and clean-up procedures for dental materials used in prosthodontics and various dental specialties in anticipation of transferring skills while assisting chairside.

2. Perform, at an intermediate level, dental material laboratory duties while demonstrating professionalism, safety, and asepsis techniques.

• Attend all laboratory sessions

• Complete laboratory worksheets and laboratory projects

• Demonstrate compliance with safety policies at all times

• Complete competencies and a clinic final

Themes:

• Dental Materials

• Professionalism

• Communication

• Teamwork

Concepts:

• Review of dental material selection, uses and manipulation from DA 131

• Temporary restorations

• Suture removal

• Periodontal dressing

• Denture Soft liner

• Steps of an endodontic procedure

• Suture removal instruments

Issues: 

• Time management

• Organization

• Laboratory Safety

Skills:

• Demonstrate adherence to laboratory standards and safety protocols
• Explain the selection and purpose of, and demonstrate the manipulation of a selected group of restorative materials, cements, bases, liners and varnishes
• Demonstrate the fabrication and trimming of study casts
• Describe and demonstrate the fabrication and cementation of temporary crowns on a typodont
• Perform a root canal procedure on a typodont tooth
• Demonstrate the steps involved in suture removal
• Demonstrate the steps involved in preparation, placement and removal of a periodontal dressing
• Demonstrate the steps involved in preparation and placement of a denture soft line material
• Introduction to the preparation and participation in oral surgery procedures