CCOG for DT 206A Spring 2024
- Course Number:
- DT 206A
- Course Title:
- Dental Technology Lab VI (Fabrication Ortho Appliances)
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 0
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 90
Course Description
Covers fabrication of removable and fixed orthodontic appliances. Prerequisites: DT 204 and DT 205. Prerequisites/concurrent: DT 284. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Construct a variety of removable and fixed orthodontic appliances.
Course Activities and Design
Laboratory
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Weekly Quizzes
- Completion of specified orthodontic projects
- Attendance
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Hardware choice
- Surveying
- Model Duplication
- Wax patterns
- Wire Bending Techniques
- Appliance Construction
- Discuss uses and purposes of removable orthodontic appliances
- Demonstrate processes and procedures involved in construction of orthodontic appliances
- Construct a maxillary removable plastic appliance, maxillary holding appliance, fixed mandibular lingual arch and a habit appliance.
- Apply safety procedures in the dental laboratory.
Related Instruction
Computation
Hours: 6Construct a variety of removable and fixed orthodontic appliances.
- Measure materials used in fabrication of orthodontic appliances
- Utilize surveyors and manipulation of wires
- Reproduce angles and curvatures
Communication
Hours: 10Construct a variety of removable and fixed orthodontic appliances.
- Discuss, compare and contrast various orthodontic appliances
- Reflect and critique individual work
- Peer review and discussion