Restorative Comprehensive Care V: Treatment Planning

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This portion of the RCC course series will guide the students through the thought processes necessary in the development of workable treatment plans. The emphasis will be on exposing the students to the approach used in our clinic of providing the patients with options of optimal, alternative and EDR (emergency diagnostic or recall) treatment plans. The lectures will emphasize the steps and sequencing of treatment planning and will include the concept of decisional analysis. They will also include information on the actual process of drawing up acceptable treatment plans via presentations of patient care models. The goal is to give the student a basic knowledge to develop treatment plans for clinic patients in a systematic manner weighing the risks, benefits, and prognoses after accurately diagnosing the disease process of the oral cavity and its contiguous structures. The goal also includes introduction of the record keeping and protocols involved in this process in our clinic. The students will have a basic understanding of systematic treatment planning to enable them to accomplish this process in an orderly and timely manner. The students will have a basic understanding of the systematic treatment planning options to aid them in developing different types of treatment plans with their future clinic faculty.