Postgraduate Course: Replacement of Missing Teeth (MRES11012)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is designed to help postgraduate students to appreciate the indications for the replacement of missing teeth in the partially dentate patient. |
| Course description |
The course will use recorded lectures, directed reading, tutor-led discussion, group project work all supported by specific learning tasks.
It will review treatment planning skills and help students to be able to evaluate the merits of the various types of partial prostheses.
It will also facilitate the provision of removable chrome-cobalt partial dentures and tooth-supported fixed bridgework. Finally it will review the indications and contraindications for implant retained prosthesis and review the treatment planning required for these restorations.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the treatment planning dilemmas associated with restoring patients with missing teeth and apply to clinical scenarios.
- Analyse the importance of communication in patient-led plans for treatment and be able to demonstrate the discussion of treatment options.
- Demonstrate the technical understanding of an appropriate design for a partial denture and critically analyse methods for communicating this design to dental team members.
- Critically evaluate the assessment of patients for dental implants and develop a process for planning the prosthodontic stages of treatment.
- Apply the principles of self-evaluation in restorative procedures recognising personal skill limitations and demonstrate this in a written reflective account of progress within this course of study.
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Reading List
| The reading list is available through the University of Edinburgh online resource list system so that students are able to link directly to essential items and be signposted to further reading. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge and understanding:
Possess core knowledge on the replacement of missing adult teeth
Skills and abilities in research and enquiry:
Possess skills in understanding research in the replacement of missing teeth and have the ability to analyse the literature in an appropriate way
Skills and abilities in personal and intellectual autonomy:
Evaluate clinical cases with missing teeth and be able to offer a range of treatment options for patients
Technical and practical skills:
Appreciate the scope and limitations of operative techniques for the replacement of missing adult teeth |
| Keywords | Missing teeth,fixed prostheses,removable prostheses,bridgework,tooth preparation,implants |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Oonagh Lawrie
Tel: (0131) 536 3974
Email: Oonagh.Lawrie@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Jennifer Allison
Tel: (0131) 536 3975
Email: Jen.Allison@ed.ac.uk |
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