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Effective Term:
Fall 2024

Course Number:
DH 230
Course Title:
Dental Materials I
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture Hours:
20
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Covers the basic properties, selection, manipulation, and clinical management of dental materials. Explores a variety of common dental materials and how they are utilized in restorative and prosthodontic procedures, as well as infection control and safety considerations in dental a practice.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Discuss various dental materials and their applications in a range of dental procedures.
  2. Explain the selection, proportioning, manipulation, and care of dental materials within the dental hygiene scope of practice.
  3. Discuss aseptic techniques and safety procedures essential for using specific dental materials.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Quizzes

Comprehensive final exam

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Themes and Concepts:

  • Oral environment and patient considerations

  • Physical and mechanical properties of dental materials

  • General handling and safety of dental materials in the dental office

  • Impression materials

  • Gypsum and wax products

  • Teeth whitening

  • Preventive and corrective oral appliances

  • Polymers for prosthetic dentistry

  • Care of the oral prosthesis

  • Pulp vitality testing

  • Dental cements

  • Periodontal dressings and sutures

Skills:

  • Classify dental materials
  • Discuss the effects of the oral environment on dental materials
  • Relate physical properties of various materials to their use in dentistry
  • Describe the various types, properties, and uses of dental cements
  • Differentiate between bases, liners, and cavity varnishes
  • Describe the use of ceramics in dentistry
  • Summarize the procedures involved in root canal therapy
  • Explain the difference between vital and non-vital tooth bleaching
  • Discuss the properties of periodontal dressing compound