Preventive Dental Care - Propaedeutic Course

Undergraduate course

Course description

Objectives and Content

Practical training on a model mounted in a mannequin and on a fellow student, to learn how to deal with instruments and equipment used by dental hygienists. Interdisciplinary introduction lectures on theoretical and clinical dentistry, initial diagnosis, manual skills and professional attitudes that will qualify the student for independent work as a dental hygienist.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the students are able to:

Knowledge

  • explain the term ¿preventive dentistry¿
  • explain the simpler nomenclature used in dental field
  • have insight into the current hygiene plan at the Faculty of Medicine (MED)

Skills

  • use hand and mechanical instruments/devices used in dental hygienist practice (egcyrets, rotary brushes, etc.) and maintenance of these
  • detect and remove plaques and calculus
  • instruct in appropriate toothbrush techniques and in interdental cleaning
  • use different fluoride prophylactic tools
  • classify, brush and polish dental fillings
  • identify caries

General competence

  • carry out and evaluate their practical work on phantom heads and on fellow students

Semester of Instruction

Autumn
Access to the Course
Bachelor's Programme in Dental Hygiene
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching such as seminars, laboratory exercises and clinical practice on fellow students under the guidance of a dental hygienist instructor and dentist instructor.
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance

Lectures/seminars (21 hours), demonstrations and student excercises (48 hours) are compulsory in the course.

To be allowed to sit the written test of the course, the following is demanded:

90% attendance and passed conduction of activities

In this subject, mandatory activities are valid for two semesters.

Forms of Assessment

Written test

When the assessment method in a subject is a `written test¿, two continuous tests will be arranged shortly for students without valid results. Students who have not achieved valid results after three attempts will be moved to lower classes. The three attempts that belong to each implementation of the subject are counted as one assessment attempt in accordance with UiB¿s regulations on studies §8-1 (1). Due to the short time between the regular and new test, complaints about grading will not be processed until the third attempt has been completed. If the third attempt is conducted as an oral test, the two previous written attempts will be the subject of the complaint process.

Grading Scale
Pass/Fail
Assessment Semester
Autumn
Course Evaluation
The course is evaluated every three years
Examination Support Material

None

Department
Department of clinical dentistry