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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2024 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- DH 230
- Course Title:
- Dental Materials I
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Covers the basic properties, selection, manipulation, and clinical management of dental materials. Explores a variety of common dental materials and how they are utilized in restorative and prosthodontic procedures, as well as infection control and safety considerations in dental a practice.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:
- Discuss various dental materials and their applications in a range of dental procedures.
- Explain the selection, proportioning, manipulation, and care of dental materials within the dental hygiene scope of practice.
- Discuss aseptic techniques and safety procedures essential for using specific dental materials.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Quizzes
Comprehensive final exam
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes and Concepts:
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Oral environment and patient considerations
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Physical and mechanical properties of dental materials
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General handling and safety of dental materials in the dental office
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Impression materials
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Gypsum and wax products
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Teeth whitening
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Preventive and corrective oral appliances
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Polymers for prosthetic dentistry
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Care of the oral prosthesis
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Pulp vitality testing
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Dental cements
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Periodontal dressings and sutures
Skills:
- Classify dental materials
- Discuss the effects of the oral environment on dental materials
- Relate physical properties of various materials to their use in dentistry
- Describe the various types, properties, and uses of dental cements
- Differentiate between bases, liners, and cavity varnishes
- Describe the use of ceramics in dentistry
- Summarize the procedures involved in root canal therapy
- Explain the difference between vital and non-vital tooth bleaching
- Discuss the properties of periodontal dressing compound