Pre-clinical Prosthodontics:
Removable Prosthodontics (Preclinical Complete Dentures) Students will perform steps/procedures involved in the fabrication and adjustment of complete dentures.
Students shall be exposed to the educational, learning, and training experience of dental laboratory techniques and simulated clinical procedures done on phantom head units in the laboratory.. At the end of training, students will appear in the theory and practical examination conducted by the university. This experience of Pre-clinical dentistry is to be gained in 2nd year BDS and shall relate to the following areas:
Introduction Pre-clinical dentistry
Introduction to treating edentulous patients.
Use of essential materials and equipment.
Producing properly contoured casts of edentulous jaws using molds.
Understanding anatomic landmarks/denture extension and borders.
Fabricating custom trays and wax occlusal rims.
Making record / temporary denture bases and occlusal registration rims/blocks.
Understanding Jaw relations and jaw records.
Selecting shade, shape, mold, and material for denture teeth.
Articulating / mounting jaw records/casts.
Setting up denture teeth on complete denture bases.
Performing esthetic wax-up for complete dentures.
Investing / packing mould
Introduction to RPDs.
Comparison of FPDs and RPDs.
Dental surveyors and its uses.
Surveying of jaw casts and its clinical importance.
Classification of partially dentate jaws and the relevant rules governing.
Different types of RPDs.
Components of RPDs.
Tooth preparation (Rest, guide planes, clasp undercut and reciprocation etc)
Making wrought wire circumferential and bar clasps.
Making Adam Clasp.
Designing and preparation of Wax patterns
Preclinical manual of conservative dentistry
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Textbook of preclinical conservative dentistry
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Guidebook of preclinical conservative dentistry Q & A
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