Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for DT 205 Fall 2024


Course Number:
DT 205
Course Title:
Dental Technology Lab V
Credit Hours:
6
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
180

Course Description

Covers the uses of porcelain and acrylic in crown and bridge construction with emphasis on color and form reproduction. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Specialty practical cases will be included with routine laboratory projects. Prerequisites: Completion of DT 204 and DT 270 with a grade of C or better, or permission of instructor.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

  • Use porcelain veneer and resins to produce finished crowns and bridgework using patient models.
  • Demonstrate adaptation and problem solving techniques to solve problems in occlusion, tooth shape and alignment, and periodontal conditions on specialty practical cases.
  • Use learned skills to build professional relationships with dentists as partners within healthcare teams.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

1. Evaluation of completed laboratory projects at any step of the fabrication process as well as at the completion of the project.
2. Students will also be assessed on speed and efficiency and lab safety compliance.
3. Weekly waxing quizzes on specialty practical cases.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

THEMES, CONCEPTS AND ISSUES:

1.  PFM Framework design

2.  Wax patterns

3.  Metal casting fabrication

4.  Porcelain injection casting

5.  Use of resins

6.  Use of various porcelain veneers

7.  Application techniques.

8. Characterization

9. Efficiency in movement, space management and time management.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:

1. Fabricate and evaluate resin veneers on the metal frameworks created in DT 204.

2. Fabricate a metal framework for porcelain veneer procedures.

3. Demonstrate the application of porcelain veneer to crowns and bridges.

4. Discuss the use of, and demonstrate the fabrication of all-porcelain jacket crowns and tooth veneers.

5. Select three specialty practical cases and design and fabricate porcelain fixed prosthetic devices for each case.

6. Consistently apply commercial laboratory safety standards and infection control procedures in the dental laboratory

Related Instruction

Computation
Hours: 10

  • Use porcelain veneer and resins to produce finished crowns and bridgework using patient models.
  • Demonstrate adaptation and problem solving techniques to solve problems in occlusion, tooth shape and

  • Demo ratios for mixing phosphate investment for high temperature alloys and refractory casts
  • Demo techniques of mixing different phosphate investments
  • Students pour refractory models in phosphate investment
  • Students use water powder ratio measurment to invest various ceramic framework wax patterns
  • Demonstrate ratios of wax pattern to casting alloy materials
  • Demo techniques of weighing patterns and estimating noble casting alloy requirements
  • Instructor query of students
  • Students cast ceramometal frameworks using the required proportion of wax to noble metal
  • Demo measurements, metal thickness, and porcelain tolerances, in design of ceramometal framework
  • Demo ceramometal framework design and construction
  • Students design ceramometal frameworks, using proper measurements, metal thickness, and porcelain tolerances
  • Demonstrate ratios of build-up porcelain veneers to create illusion of natural tooth coloration and translucency
  • Demo techniques of veneering porcelain to create illusion of natural tooth coloration and translucency
  • Students build-up crowns using natural tooth blend ratios

Human Relations
Hours: 15

1. Use porcelain veneer and resins to produce finished crowns and bridgework using patient models.

2. Demonstrate adaptation and problem solving techniques to solve problems in occlusion, tooth shape and alignment, and periodontal conditions on specialty practical cases.

3. Use learned skills to build trust with dentist as partners as healthcare teams.

  • Student interaction during ceramometal framework wax pattern fabrication
  • Interaction among students in general area during investment mixing and pouring
  • Interaction among students in general area during weighing and casting procedures
  • Interaction instructor /student and student/student during ceramometal framework measuring and finishing
  • Students/Instructor discussions during ceramometal framework pre-grade
  • Interaction instructor /student and student/student during PFM buildup/firing and finishing
  • Students/Instructor discussions during PFM pre-grade.
  • Student and instructor discuss ethics and importance of trust within the industry.
  • Discussion relating to cases send to the Lab for processing and uniqueness of each individual case.
  • Interacting with dentist regarding individual cases and developing a path forward.