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, and preventive and treatment procedures. Patient information, treatment plans, referrals and consultations. Periodontology: routine care and approaches to managing complicated cases, dressings and suture removal. Dental trauma and mouthguards. Dental photography. Orthodontics: assessment, instruments and materials, care of appliances, banding and debanding procedures. This unit has additional practical/clinical hours conducted outside normal semester hours.
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:	060701 Dentistry
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
2008	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