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DENT5160: Orthodontics Clinical Training 1
2025 unit information
This unit familiarises students with the important aspects of orthodontic clinical sequences and basic clinical skills. It runs for two months and covers both basic theoretical and clinical orthodontic skills that are essential prior to undertaking patient treatment. This unit has a preclinical focus: Typodont simulation to manage and observe orthodontic tooth movement and wire bending sessions to learn and practice hand bending of wires.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Discipline of Orthodontic and Paediatric Dentistry |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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DENT5161 and DENT5162 |
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None |
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Knowledge acquired from the following online study module topics: Clinical examination (extra oral intraoral features), Patient interview data, Diagnostic tools, Definition and Aetiology of malocclusion, Cephalometrics. Introduction, Cephalometrics. Practice locating basic landmarks, Cast and arch length analysis, Tooth size problems and Bolton analysis, Diagnostic summary and problem list, treatment planning and sequencing - Part 1, Diagnostic summary and problem list, treatment planning and sequencing - Part 2, Clinical photography, Introduction to cleft lip and palate, Tip-Edge Introduction Course, Functional Appliances Course |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. provide an overview of patient diagnostic aids (study models, radiographs, photographs, and model analysis), interview data e.g. medical and dental history and patient’s chief complaint, cephalometric examination, classification of malocclusion and their treatments, wire properties in orthodontic appliances, bracket and band placement, and bonding material
- LO2. demonstrate familiarity with chair-side assistance and case presentation and tutorials of other postgraduate students
- LO3. take appropriate clinical records, photos, and radiographs from patients, and have planning sessions with the tutors
- LO4. demonstrate different applications of mechanotherapy for clinical proficiency and undertake orthodontic bracket positioning in different malocclusions and trained to approach more complex orthodontic problems
- LO5. demonstrate familiarity with impacted tooth, cleft-lip and palate, and demonstrate an emerging understanding of important orthodontic techniques including self-ligating brackets, Begg and Tip-Edge, orthodontic implants and functional appliances
- LO6. demonstrate basic wire bending skill
- LO7. demonstrate an emerging ability to evaluate the orthodontic literature.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Surry Hills, Sydney |
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