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DENT5163: Orthodontics Clinical Training 3
2025 unit information
This unit is designed to familiarise students with the important aspects of orthodontic clinical set-up and basic clinical skills. Students will be trained to undertake basic clinical procedures, including orthodontic bracket bonding, removable appliance placement and bonded appliances cementation.
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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(DENT5160 and DENT5161) or DENT6226 |
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Corequisites:
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DENT5164 and DENT5165 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
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. Be familiar with chair side assistance and case presentation and tutorials of other postgraduate students
- LO3. Be able to 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. Be familiar 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. Be able to perform basic wire bending skills
- LO7. Demonstrate an emerging ability to evaluate the orthodontic literature
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Surry Hills, Sydney |
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