Clinical Removable Prosthodontics.

Catalog description

This course involves comprehensive treatment of partially edentulous, completely edentulous, and hopeless dentition patients. It allows students to apply what they have learned during their Integrated Preclinical Technique curriculum to patient care. With direct supervision and feedback from faculty, students perform all indicated removable prosthodontic procedures on their patients. This course is conducted during the Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters of the DDS third year and IDS second year curriculum. Students are expected to actively participate in a comprehensive array of RP patient care at increasing levels of skill, independence, & judgement/problem-solving. Record of patient care, and faculty and lab feedback are used to determine student competency and readiness for independent practice including Removable Prosthodontics.