Child and Adolescent Oral Health 3 (DENT90077)

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.