DENT 445: REMOVABLE PROSTHODONTICS 4

(3 credit hours: 1 theory, 2 clinical)

JordanUniversity of Science and Technology
Faculty of Dentistry
Department of Proshodontics
First Semester
Course Syllabus
Course Information
Course Title / REMOVABLE PROSTHODONTICS 4
Course Code / DENT 445
Prerequisites / Dent 343, Dent 344
Course Website /
Instructor / Dr. Esam Alem
Office Location / Second Floor, Dental Teaching Clinics (10G), JUST Campus
Prosthodontics Teaching Clinic, DTC
Office Phone / 02-7201000 ext. 23944
Office Hours / By appointment, Tues (9am – 12 pm), Wed (9am – 12pm)
E-mail /
Teaching Assistant(s) / Dr. Ziad Al-Dwairi, Dr. Mousa Marashdeh, Dr. Bilal El Masoud, Dr. Saleh Almohammed,
Course Description
The course is designed to provide students with more knowledge of the clinical aspects of prosthodontics. It concentrates on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning of patients in need for complete or removable partial dentures, managing complaints and complications, oral pathological conditions related to complete dentures, overdentures, relining, rebasing, and repairs of removable prostheses, copy dentures and immediate complete dentures.
Text Book
Title / Prosthodontic Treatment for Edentulous patients
Authors / G.A Zarb; C.L. Bolender; J.C. Hickey and G.E Carlsson
Publisher / Mosby
Year / Edition / 2004 / Twelfth
Title / Fenn, Liddelow, and Gimsons' Clinical Dental Prosthetics
Authors / A. Roy McGregor
Publisher / Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Year / Edition / 1989 / Third
Title / A Clinical Guide to Complete Denture Prosthetics
Authors / J.Fraser McCord, Alan A. Grant
Publisher / British Dental Journal
Year / Edition / 2000
Title / Complete Prosthodontics: Problems, Diagnosis And Management
Authors / Alan A. Grant, John R. Heath, J. Fraser McCord
Publisher / Mosby-Year Book
Year / Edition / 1994
Title / Stewart's Clinical Removable Partial Prosthodontics
Authors / Rodney D. Phoenix, David R. Cagna, Charles F. DeFreest
Publisher / Qunitessence Publishing Co Inc
Year / Edition / 2008 / Fourth
Title / Removable Partial Denture Design - Outline Syllabus
Authors / Arthur J. Krol, Theodore E. Jacobson, Frederick C. Finzen
Publisher / Indent
Year / Edition / 1999 / Fifth
Title / McCracken’s Removable Partial Prosthodontics
Authors / Alan B. Carr, Glen P. McGivney, David T. Brown
Publisher / Elsevier Mosby
Year / Edition / 2005 / Eleventh (New edition: June, 2010 – Twelfth Ed.)
Assessment Policy
Assessment Type / The examination will comprises two formal written examinations in the form of:
1.Midterm examination
2. Final exam
Midterm Exam / 40%: Intra-semester work for the 1st and 2nd semesters as follows:
15 Marks: Midterm written exam
5 Marks: Quizzes
20 Marks for Clinical Assessment (Requirements) as follows:
1st semester:
5 Marks: Complete denture case
5 Marks: Provisional RPD case
2nd semester
5 Marks: Complete denture case
5 Marks: Provisional RPD case
Final Exam / 40%: Final: Written
20% Viva and/or Spot
Assignments
Attendance
Participation
Course Objectives / Weights
Students will be introduced to the following:
  • Basic principles of prosthetic dentistry
  • Identifying patient’s problems and rendering a diagnosis requires insight to a patient’s social and medico dental background.
  • Students are introduced to the clinical and theoretical aspects of removable prosthodontics which involves the examination, diagnosis, treatment planning, construction of the removable prostheses and maintenance of the hard and soft tissues.
  • Concepts involved in the design and production of complete & partial dentures
  • Health and safety in the clinics Communication with the dental laboratory

Teaching & Learning Methods
  • Duration: 14 weeks
  • Lectures: 13 hours, 1 hour per week ( including 1hour midterm exam)
  • Clinical : 3- hours clinic/week
  • Laboratory: students should do the laboratory work for one complete denture and one acrylic partial denture. This will be supervised by trained technicians.
  • Seminars: 4-5 selected topics will be covered in seminar-based lectures in the 2nd term

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
Related Objective(s) / Refrance
Successful completion of the theoretical part of this course should lead to the following learning outcomes:
1 / Be able to take history and examine an edentulous and partially dentate patients
2 / Understand the principles of formulating a treatment plan for an edentulous and partially dentate patients
3 / Be able to critically appraise the quality of prosthetic laboratory work
4 / Understand the principles of balanced occlusion in complete dentures,
5 / Be aware of the properties of materials used in removable prostheses construction
6 / Gain working knowledge on immediate dentures, copy dentures, relining and rebasing techniques.
7 / Understand the principles of fabricating and designing RPD
Upon successful completion of the clinical part of this course, the student should gain the following skills:
1 / Concepts of clinical examinations, diagnosis, treatment planning
2 / Construction of the prostheses and maintenance of the hard and soft tissues
3 / Ability to survey diagnostic casts and input in the design process of acrylic partial dentures
4 / Ability to practice all clinical and laboratory steps of complete and partial denture construction
Useful Resources
(1)J.U.S.T Complete Denture Manual
(2)J.U.S.T Removable Partial Denture Manual
(3) Lecture Handouts
Course Content
Week / Topics / Chapter in text
1 / Introduction and Course Description
2 / Clinical Assessment of CD patients/Review of Clinical Steps of CD
3 / Acrylic Partial Dentures
4 / Impression Techniques in CD
5 / Difficulties and Solutions in Complete Dentures
6 / Occlusion and Check Records for Complete Dentures
7 / Complaints in Complete Dentures
8 / Relining, Rebasing and Repairs in Complete Dentures
9 / Copy Dentures
10 / Holiday
11 / Immediate Complete Dentures
12 / Midterm Exam
13 / Review of RPD Design I
14 / Review of RPD Design II (Distal Extension Bases)
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Clinical Content & Weight:
No. of clinics /

Clinical requirement

/ Skills gained
1 / Taking History and clinical Examination for complete or partial denture patients.
Primary impressions using impression compound and/or alginate / Skills of gaining information from patients and establish ways of good communication.
Selection of appropriate size of stock tray, handling impression compound and alginate, ability to evaluate the impression
2 / Border molding using tracing compound and secondary impressions using ZOE impression material or alginate for partially dentate patients / Ability to trim special tray to the appropriate dimensions and trace the borders accurately before making the impression
1 / Jaw registration / Ability to trim wax rim according to lip support, leveling of occlusal plane, vertical dimension, free-way space and ability to record the centric jaw relationship accurately, shade and mould selection
1 / Wax-try-in / Ability to assess the trial denture from all aspects mentioned in the registration stage
1 / Insertion of finished dentures / Ability to assess retention, stability, support, appearance of finished dentures, in addition to occlusal adjustment and clinical remount if necessary
1 / Review / Ability to identify patients complaints and try to solve them
Additional Notes
Professionalism /
  • Professions tend to be autonomous and self-sufficient which means having a high degree of control of one’s own affairs while having freedom to exercise professional judgment.
  • As it is a trait, which can be easily enhanced, it is thus subject to self-interest and a continuous process of critical evaluation of ethics and procedure.
  • As the students have been part of the university for some considerable time, they would be familiar with general principles about its beliefs on matters such as quality studentship within this environment. We thus expect our students to develop their professionalism even further together with a high morality. Dentistry is a profession based on such ethical codes.
  • Gross violations of these formal codes are governed by University laws, which delineate the procedures to determine whether a violation of the code of ethics occurred and, if so, what remedies should be imposed.
  • This does not mean the list is complete. We encourage students to abide with the more sensitive approach to this by allowing the practice of a high Morality (or proper behavior), which defines right and wrong by the society, philosophy, religion, and individual conscience.
  • Students and their instructors often make ethical choices reflexively/ But ethically sensitive situations, where time, emotions and marks are pressured, it becomes all too easy to be blind-sided by temptation. The best antidote to ethical lapses is to commit in advance to a set of ethical principles - your personal ethical code that follows or grows to it.
  • Any difficulty or concern during the course should be passed directly to the course coordinator.

Labwork /
  • The working models should be marked with the students name and university number
  • Student ID labels are confirmed by assigned lab supervisor
  • The Lab work should be finished during the lab sessions, not allowed to finish your work at home
  • Completed work is handed in the assigned area in the lab
  • Marks are returned within one week of the assignment
  • Undelivered work will not be marked
  • All the instruments you need should be brought as soon as possible
  • You should leave your worktop as clean as possible
  • Each student should set at the designated area.
    Names will be mounted on each bench.
  • Cooperation and professionalism in the lab time are encouraged to facilitate your progress in the course

Makeup Exams /
  • Applicable when an acceptable and valid excuse is presented at the appropriate time.

Drop Date /
  • N/A

Cheating /
  • Unethical.
  • JUST regulations will be applied
  • The work should be your own, otherwise it will marked zero

Attendance /
  • It is mandatory for all lectures, clinical and laboratory sessions
  • Each student will be assigned a seat
  • Tardiness up to 15 minutes of the start of class/clinic/lab will be allowed.

Absenteeism /
  • To receive course credit, a student should attend a minimum of 90% of the contact hours of the class; meaning losing only one and a half lecture.
  • Absences from class are counted from the day the class meets officially for the first time – not from when the student officially enters.
  • If absent from lectures, then the course coordinator will refer to related guidelines set by the university
  • Any student who is absent on a test day, will have to demonstrate an acceptable medical or social statement explaining the illness or personal crisis as instructed by their faculty
  • Individual instructors may arrange for a make-up test only when a written request is made to and approved by the appropriate dean.

Students with Special needs /
  • Any student who feels that he/she may need accommodation for any type of disability is strongly encouraged to contact the course coordinator who will be happy to help in any way
  • Individual accommodations to the course plan are possible after consulting with the dean.

Graded Exams /
  • Multiple choice questions will be computer based
    Written questions may include short essay, definition, enumeration and matching questions
  • Answers will be discussed in the class

Participation /
  • All students are highly encouraged to actively participate in the class and laboratory sessions
  • Quizzes and brain storming will be an essential part of the course.

Individual conferencing and consultations /
  • The course coordinator is always available to talk with the student when problems arise
  • If you have any problems that require the attention of an instructor, do not wait until the problem is insurmountable
  • If a student needs to talk with the course coordinator outside office hours, an appointment can be made

Course changes /
  • Information contained in this course outline is correct at the time of publication
  • Content of the courses is revised on an ongoing basis to ensure relevance to changing educational, employment needs
  • The course coordinator reserves the right to add or delete material from courses and will endeavour to provide notice of changes to students as soon as possible
  • The timetable may also be revised accommodating to holidays and unexpected holidays