Course syllabus for General Dentistry Clinic - Adults, Children and Adolescents

Allmän tandvårdsklinik - vuxna, barn och ungdomar

Specific entry requirements

The student must have started their fourth year at their home university.

Students who fail a clinical placement (or equivalent) during their education at KI as a result of demonstrating such a serious lack of knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or the patients' confidence in medical care is at risk, will only be qualified for a clinical placement once the individual action plan has been carried out.

Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will be able to:

• Communicate with adult patients, and respond to them with a professional approach and based on a multicultural and equal opportunities perspective.
• Examine, diagnose, investigate, devise treatment plan and treat adults with diseases and injuries in teeth and surrounding tissues, including orofacial pain and jaw function limitations, as well as carry out rehabilitative measures, based on scientific evidence and best practice.
• Diagnose and discuss the acute management of traumatic injuries in the primary and permanent dentition and surrounding tissues in children and adolescents, as well as follow up and address complications after trauma.
• Reflect on treatment needs of adults, adolescents and children.
• Perform object localization in intraoral radiographs and use information gathered from radiology reports in therapy planning.

Content

The course covers clinical training through examination, diagnostics, therapy planning, and treatment of adult patients, as well as clinical observation of children, adolescents and adults. Through seminars, theoretical knowledge is connected to clinical practice. The course also includes interprofessional learning between dentistry and dental hygiene students.

General Dentistry Clinic - Adults, Children and Adolescents, 15.0 credits

Grading scale: GU

Teaching methods

Pre-clinical/clinical demonstrations and practice, clinical observation, and seminars.

Examination

Examination: Clinical performance (summative assessment of the clinical practice).

Compulsory parts: Pre-clinical/clinical demonstrations and practice, clinical observation, and seminars

The examiner decides whether, and if so how, absence from compulsory course elements can be made up. Study results cannot be reported until the student has participated in compulsory course elements or compensated for any absence in accordance with instructions from the examiner. Absence from a compulsory course element could mean that the student can not retake the element until the next time the course is offered.

Students who do not pass a regular examination are entitled to re-sit the examination on five more occasions. If the student has failed six examinations/tests, no additional examination is given. Regarding clinical rotations, the student has the right to attend these twice.

If there are special grounds, or a need for adaptation for a student with a disability, the examiner may decide to deviate from the syllabus's regulations on the examination form, the number of examination opportunities, the possibility of supplementation or exemptions from the compulsory section/s of the course etc. Content and learning outcomes as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge and abilities may not be changed, removed or reduced.

The examiner may, with immediate effect, interrupt a student's clinical placement (or equivalent) if the student demonstrates such serious deficiencies in knowledge, skills or attitude that patient safety or patient confidence in healthcare is at risk. If a clinical placement is interrupted in this way the student is deemed to have failed that element and to have used up one clinical placement opportunity. In such cases, an individual action plan should be set up stating which activities and tests are required before the student is qualified for a new clinical placement on the course.

Literature and other teaching aids

Recommended literature

• Milleding, Percy G., Preparations for fixed prosthodontics, Copenhagen : Munksgaard Danmark, 2012 - 294 p. ISBN: 87-628-1071-5 (hf.), LIBRIS-ID: 12519937,
• Dental caries: the disease and its clinical management, Fejerskov, Ole; Nyvad, Bente; Kidd, Edwina A.M., 3. ed. : Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 - xiv, 466 s. ISBN: 9781118935828, LIBRIS-ID: 17388351,
• Pediatric dentistry: a clinical approach, Koch, Göran; Poulsen, Sven; Espelid, Ivar; Haubek, Dorte, Third edition : Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017 - xiii, 390 pages ISBN: 9781118913499, LIBRIS-ID: 19600641,
• Textbook and color atlas of traumatic injuries to the teeth, Andreasen, J. O.; Andreasen, F. M.; Andersson, Lars, Fifth edition. : Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2019 - xv, 1043 pages ISBN: 9781119167051, LIBRIS-ID: cm0qbzls9jj00q0j,
• Littlewood, Simon J.; Mitchell, Laura, An introduction to orthodontics, Fifth edition. : Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2019] - xi, 355 pages ISBN: 9780198808664, LIBRIS-ID: zf3d6ln2wgjttvsh,
• Gehrig, Jill S.; Sroda, Rebecca; Saccuzzo, Darlene, Fundamentals of periodontal instrumentation & advanced root instrumentation, Eighth edition, revised reprint : Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2019] - 760 sidor ISBN: 9781975117504, LIBRIS-ID: 5fflztj5308q6t93,
• Lindhe's clinical periodontology and implant dentistry, Berglundh, Tord; Giannobile, William V.; Lang, Niklaus Peter; Sanz, Mariano, Seventh edition : Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022] - 2 volumes (1314 pages) ISBN: 9781119438885, LIBRIS-ID: l07b9r40jrhsbb7d,
• Bjørndal, Lars; Kirkevang, Lise-Lotte; Whitworth, John M., Textbook of endodontology, Third edition. : 2018 - 479 s. ISBN: 9781119057314, LIBRIS-ID: 6g8kvwsx4k1jnpmb,
• Whaites, Eric., Essentials of dental radiography and radiology, Sixth editions. : Edinburgh : Elsevier Health Sciences, 2020 ISBN: 9780702076886, LIBRIS-ID: cspqtqfm9vvjdv5p,
• Okeson, Jeffrey P., Management of temporomandibular disorders and occlusion, 8th edition. : St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, [2019] - xi, 497 pages ISBN: 0323582109, LIBRIS-ID: dpw81cd0b9x7nsdx,