Oral Pathology and Adult Oral Function (ORAL90002)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
About this subject
Overview
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This subject has the following components: Comprehensive oral health examination and treatment planning for adults, management of the older adult, periodontology, prosthodontics and cariology. It will be conducted as didactic component and using virtual clinical case based teaching.
This subject continues alongside subjects Oral Health Sciences 4 and Oral Health Practice 4. Teaching and learning activities will be centered at the Melbourne Dental School with support via the computer aided learning management system.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- Competently show knowledge in the assessment of a patient’s medical history as to ascertain possible complications to care and to seek appropriate referral advice when required
- Communicate which occlusal conditions contraindicate dental restoration by a DT/OHT
- Identify different types of dental prostheses used in dentistry including the indications for each
- Describe the possible complications for placing restorations adjacent to a fixed or removable prostheses
- Appreciate the restorative-periodontal interface
- Describe age related changes in teeth and the supporting structures
- Appreciate the challenges of restoring form and function with multisurface restorations in adult mouths
- Display knowledge in treatment planning for care considered part of the scope of practice for OHT or DT and consults or refers to a dentist for those elements outside such scope.
- Demonstrate knowledge in adult clinical dental therapy practice
- Recognize when clinical cases are beyond their skill set and make appropriate referral
Last updated: 15 April 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the GC-DTACP Graduate Certificate in Dental Therapy (Advanced Clinical Practice)
This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
It is proposed to offer this subject to registered, currently practising dental therapists and oral health therapists in Australia and New Zealand. Previous management of clients aged 18-24 years would be of benefit but not essential.
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: 15 April 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Online clinical case based assessment
| End of the teaching period | 20% |
10 x 20 minute online quizzes (5 x 20 min quizzes for cariology and 5 x 20 min quizzes for periodontics)
| From Week 3 to Week 18 | 40% |
Objective structured clinical exam on prosthodontics and management of the older adult
| During the assessment period | 40% |
Last updated: 15 April 2025
Dates & times
Not available in 2025
Time commitment details
170 hours per 12.5 credit point subject
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 15 April 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Dental Therapy (Advanced Clinical Practice)
Last updated: 15 April 2025