Introduction to Restorative Dentistry (Lecture). 4.5 Credit Hours

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Foundation of Restorative Dentistry (FRD) 1 (Introduction to Restorative Dentistry), is a lecture-based course where first year dental students acquire foundation knowledge necessary to perform laboratory and clinical tasks that will be required for clinical practice. Students apply foundational concepts in a companion preclinical lab course (FRD 2) that runs concurrent with FRD 1 lecture. The primary goals of FRD 1 are to build the students' foundation knowledge related to restoring form, function, and esthetics of the human dentition, to develop the students' foundation knowledge related to the dentition's occlusion, and to establish the students' foundation knowledge related to important properties of biomaterials relevant to restorative dentistry. Registration for this course requires to be enrolled as a DS1 student.