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Child and Adolescent Oral Health 3 (DENT90077)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: enquiries-STEM@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject is a continuation of Child and Adolescent Oral Health 2 and has 2 components: Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics.
Intended learning outcomes
Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) for Paediatric Dentistry component:
On completion of Block 3 and 4, students should be able to:
- effectively communicate with young persons in the dental situation;
- be able to take appropriate medical history, and examine patients with minimal assistance from staff;
- accurately produce, interpret and critique intra-oral and extra-oral radiographs of young patients;
- have developed skills in diagnosis and treatment planning and management of young patients in their care;
- perform a dental prophylaxis, place a rubber dam, give local anesthesia, place fissure sealants, issue mouthguard and perform challenging restorations including placement of stainless steel crowns;
- be responsible and safe in the dental management of young persons under your care;
- understand the importance of prevention, identification, assessment and treatment of oral diseases, as opposed to the episodic management of symptomatic oral problems;
- appreciate the value of maintenance of oral health after treatment of child and adolescents including those with complicated problems;
- appreciate the need for specialist referral for those patients which cannot be successfully managed in general practice.
- manage the behavioural aspects of young patients in the dental setting with some assistance;
Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) for Orthodontics component:
On completion of Block 3 and 4 in DDS 3, students should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- understand diagnostic procedures for developmental problems, so that students will be prepared when they plan treatment to sort patients by the difficulty and severity of their problems ;
- Understand and be able to explain the biomechanical principles involved with orthodontic tooth movement.
- understand at an introductory level the clinical orthodontic treatment of children. This includes learning the procedures in treating a child patient and participation in active orthodontics treatment.
- Recognise the clinical situations for which orthodontic appliances are indicated, as well as their limitations.
- Understand and explain the effects which orthodontic appliances can produce (both desirable and undesirable.
Generic skills
Students should:
- be able to access new knowledge from different sources, analyse and interpret it in a critical manner;
- begin to develop skills in effective communication with teaching staff and peers;
- develop effective organizational skills and time management;
- develop skills in team work and develop skills of workplace safety;
- be able to identify and address their own learning needs.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Successful completion of all Semester 1 (Teaching Blocks 1 and 2), DDS 3rd year subjects:
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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DENT90076 | Child and Adolescent Oral Health 2 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
DENT90078 | Clinical Dental Practice 4 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
18.75 |
DENT90080 | Dental Research Project 3 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
6.25 |
DENT90081 | Oral Medicine & Special Needs Dentistry | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
DENT90083 | Specialist Dental Practice 1 | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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1 x written paper on orthodontics and paediatric dentistry
| At the end of Block 4 | 30% |
Continuing clinical assessment of patients receiving orthodontic and paediatric dentistry care through a clinical log book assessed by the clinical supervisor (criteria provided) at the end of each session and presentation of a journal article at a seminar | Throughout Blocks 3 and 4 | 20% |
1 x combined paediatric dentistry and orthodontics Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
| End of Block 4 | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at Seminars/Tutorials & Clinical Sessions | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Feedback will be given at clinical and tutorial sessions to provide students with information regarding their progress.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Siew-May Loo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 54 (indicative) Teaching period 27 June 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 8 July 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
Melbourne Dental School
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: enquiries-STEM@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
54 contact hours (indicative), 26 non-contact hours (indicative)
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts and other resources
Cameron AC and Widmer RP 2008 Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry 3 rd ed, Mosby
Hall RK 1994 Pediatric Oro-facial Medicine and Pathology Chapman and Hall Medical
Koch G, Poulsen S 2009 Pediatric Dentistry: A Clinical Approach 2 nd ed, Wiley-Blackwell
McDonald RE, Avery DR and Dean JA 2011 Dentistry for the Child and Adolescent 9 th ed Mosby
Profitt WR, Fields HW, Ackerman JL, Sinclair PM, Thomas PM and Tulloch JFC 2007 Contemporary Orthodontics 4 th ed, Mosby
Scully CM and Welbury R 1994 Color Atlas of Oral diseases in Children and Adolescents Wolfe
Therapeutic guidelines – Oral and Dental. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, Melbourne, 2007
Last updated: 31 January 2024