Course Title: Perform maintenance treatment for clients with removable dental prostheses
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2010
Course Code: DENT5220C
Course Title: Perform maintenance treatment for clients with removable dental prostheses
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6081 - Advanced Diploma of Dental Prosthetics
Course Contact: Mark Doherty
Course Contact Phone: Ph: (03) 9341 1407
Course Contact Email: mark.doherty@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
craig mccracken (03)9341 1410 craig.mccracken@rmit.edu.au zanne frazer (03)9341 1402 zanne.frazer@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 75
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
HLTIN301A Comply with infection control policies and procedures in health work
HLTIN302A Process reusable instruments and equipment in health work
HLTOHS400A Maintain OHS processes in the health industry
HLTDP601B Identify, select and prepare instruments, equipment, materials as required
HLTDP602B Gather data, take history, conduct a dental prosthetic examination and develop a treatment plan
HLTDP603B Take impressions
HLTDP604B Establish and record jaw relationships and select artificial teeth
HLTDP605B Evaluate a removable dental prosthesis at try-in stage
HLTDP606B Insert and issue a completed dental prothesis
Course Description
Perform maintenance treatment for clients with removable dental prostheses
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTDP607B Perform maintenance treatment for clients with removable dental prostheses |
Element: |
1. Examine oral cavity and/or prosthesis to determine treatment need |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Review the client’s medical history |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit you will have the skills and knowledge required to adjust and maintain new and existing dental prostheses.
Clients may be dentate or edentulous.
Details of Learning Activities
Lecture. Clinical practice. Patient records.
Teaching Schedule
Relevant current legislation and guidelines
Procedures
• Adjustments
• Tissue conditioning
• Temporary relining
• Permanent relining or re-basing
• Repairs to existing denture
• Additions to existing denture
• Evaluation
• Referral
• Occupational health and safety
• Infection control
Materials and equipment
• Tissue conditioning
• Pressure indicator paste
• Impression materials
• Occlusal indicators
• Examination mirrors
• Handpiece
• Burs
Patient communication
• Interpersonal communication
• Patient/behaviour management techniques
• Patient instruction
• Oral hygiene self-care
• Prosthesis maintenance
• Using cultural understandings
Work effectiveness
• Principles of quality assurance
• Principles of work effectiveness and organisation
• Problem solving
• Evaluation skills
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Problems and Solutions in Complete Denture Prosthodontics" by David J Lamb (Quintessence books) "Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases" by G.Laskaris (Thieme books) "Prosthetic Treatment of the Edentulous Patient" 4th Ed. by R M Basker and J C Davenport (Blackwell Munksgaard books) |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Clinical demonstration. Patient records.
Assessment Tasks
Perform elements and performance criteria of competence as designated for this unit of competence to the required standard consistently across a range of variables during clinical placement.
Report on clinical experiences and procedures, materials, instruments and equipment. Patient records, Case histories – presentation patients)
Provide a summary of each chapter of prescribed text; Prosthetic Treatment of the Edentulous Patient" 4th Ed. by R M Basker and J C Davenport
Complete journal of experience in relation to outcomes of simulated practical training and clinical experience placement (Patient records & Case histories)
* Co assessed with this will be elements of HLTHIR501A:- Maintain an effective health work environment, HLTIN301A:- Comply with infection control policies and procedures and HLTOHS:- Maintain OHS processes*
Assessment Matrix
Consistent clinical demonstration addressing all the performance criteria across a wide range of variables. 70%
Patient records addressing performance criteria. 20%
Summary of each chapter of prescribed text 10%
*All assessment tasks must be successfully completed for competency to be attained in this unit.
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