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HU Credits:
8
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Dental Medicine
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr.Avital Houri
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday 8-16, wensday 8-15, thursday 8-13
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Avital Houri
Dr. Michal Shohat
Dr.
Dr. michael ogorodnikoff
Dr. Meni Katz
Dr.
Dr. Gilad Ben Gal
Dr.
Course/Module description:
This is the preclinical course of removable dentures. Teaching is comprised of lectures, self learning using digital manuals and lab procedures.
Course/Module aims:
Basic course of removable dentures, aimed at preparing the student towards treating edentulous patients and edentulous or partially edentulous jaws.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
•Plan and execute the stages of removable denture preparation
•Apply the principles of oral rehabilitation to clinical decision making in fully and partially edentulous patients’ treatment.
•Apply the principles of denture occlusion to successful hands-on removable prosthesis balance
•Execute the laboratory preparation of a pair of complete dentures
•Identify, explain and solve various problems and mistakes in the process of removable denture preparation.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures & Labs, self learning
Course/Module Content:
Part A: Complete dentures:
•Introduction:definitions and principles
•Practical anatomy and implications for dentures
•Impressions– principles, materials and techniques
•Transfer of patient data to the laboratory: esthetic data and intermaxilary relations
•Esthetics in removable dentures
•Treatment sequence and patient management
•Occlusion and articulation, role of articulators and face bows
•Laboratory procedures in complete dentures
•Demonstration of all construction steps on real patients
•Completion of a pair of full dentures in an articulator
Part B: Removable Partial Dentures
•Introduction:definitions and principles, types of partial edentulous conditions
•Components of the RPD: definitions, functions and types
•Impressions - principles, materials and techniques
•Design of skeletal framework: Principles of design, design exercises
•Hands on training: preparations of rest seats, survey of casts and definition of insertion paths and undercuts.
Required Reading:
1. Hickey CJ, Zarb GA Bolender CL: Boucher's Prosthodontics for edentulous patients. Mosby 1990 St. Louis.
2. McCracken’s Removable Partial Prosthodontics.10th Edition.
Additional Reading Material:
Electronic lectures and presentation - Accessible on course website
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 30 %
entry exams & final practical exam
Additional information:
Theoretical components 70%:
2 Entry examinations (for full denture and parital denture)
30% Practical components: 3 quizzes of planning partial denture, participation and practicing lab procedures.
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