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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313257 (v.1) Oral Health Therapy 131

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Dental Hygiene and Therapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 8.5
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 6.5 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The dental team, roles and responsibilities. Clinic preparation, infection control, occupational health issues. Oral health promotion overview. Introduction to the oral environment, plaque, diet, the main dental diseases and their prevention and management. Cariology: epidemiology, aetiology, pathology, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, classification, risk assessment. Introduction to patient assessment, records, clinical decision making. Minimum intervention concepts. Plaque control, sealants, salivatesting, fluorides and other remineralising agents: history, mechanisms of action and uses. Instruments and instrumentation. Moisture control. Direct restorative materials. Restorative dentistry: Introduction to cavity preparation design and restoration.Dental anatomy and an introduction to occlusion. Laboratory practice in oral health therapy procedures.
Field of Education: 060701 Dentistry
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External