Restorative Comprehensive Care III: Fixed Prosthodontics

Catalog description

Primarily, the purpose of this course is to teach concepts to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment and/or referral plan for patients that need restoration of teeth to manage the replacement of teeth for the partially or completely edentulous patients using fixed prosthodontics as treatment of choice and to recognize limited occlusal abnormalities. The students will be introduced to tooth modifications and to the techniques involved providing information to the laboratory to fabricate fixed dental prosthetics and fixed partial dentures. This course will also provide the student hands-on exercises to facilitate students’ understanding on the principles of dental implant prerequisite to diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment of patients’ partial and complete edentulism with implant prosthodontics. The restoration of extensively damaged and endodontically treated teeth will be performed to enhance students’ understanding on the biomechanical environment of damaged teeth, options for restoration, choices of biomaterials, and the factors affecting the prognosis of the treatment.