302887 (v.1) Clinical Dentistry 237

Area:

Department of Dental Hygiene and Therapy

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

21.0

** 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. **

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Clinical Practice:

1 x 19 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

302881 (v.1) Clinical Dentistry 138 or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

8071 (v.7) Clinical Dentistry 235

Syllabus:

Clinical dental hygiene practice including patient assessment, preventive and treatment procedures. Patient information, treatment plans, referrals, consultations. Periodontology - routine care and approaches to managing complicated cases, dressings, suture removal. Dental trauma, mouthguards. Dental photography. Orthodontics - assessment, instruments and materials, care of appliances, banding and debanding procedures.

** 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. **

Field of Education:

60701 Dentistry

Funding Cluster:

09 - Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2005	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