Clinical Case Studies II

Catalog description

This course is the second of a three-course sequence (Fall, Winter, Spring) designed to expand the dental students’ use of the fundamentals of comprehensive treatment planning. Students learn more advanced analysis, and interpretation of obtained diagnostic information including the patient’s medical and dental history, radiographs, photographs, and clinical findings to develop a properly phased and sequenced treatment plan. Also to begin to evaluate more complex patients. The focus of the winter course, in small groups, is on learning how to use the relevant information obtained from the intraoral and extraoral exams, radiographic interpretations and medical history questionnaire, to formulate a treatment plan using critical thinking principles.