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CDAMP MODULE VI. OVERVIEW (General Dental Practices – BSH-9196)
OBJECTIVES: “GENERAL DENTAL PRACTICES”:
A. Operatory Preparation & Maintenance
B. Chairside Instruments and Tray Systems
C. Management of Pain & Anxiety
D. Dental Procedures & Materials
A. “OPERATORY PREPARATION & MAINTENANCE”:
- Design a well-functioning dental office
- Explain the basic concepts of chairside assisting
- Demonstrate how the operatory is prepared for each patient
- Demonstrate operatory and equipment maintenance
- Seat and dismiss a patient
- Describe operator and assistant positioning for treatment of each quadrant
- Accommodate a patient with special needs
B. “CHAIRSIDE INSTRUMENTS AND TRAY SYSTEMS”:
- Identify the parts of a dental instrument
- Describe how instruments are identified
- Describe various dental handpieces and attachments and demonstrate their operation
- Identify categories and functions of dental burs
- Describe types and functions of abrasives
- Describe types of tray systems and color-coding systems
C. “MANAGEMENT OF PAIN & ANXIETY”:
- Describe methods used to manage pain and anxiety related to dental procedures
- Explain various topical anesthetics and their use
- Describe types of local anesthetics and their use
- Describe equipment and materials needed to administer a local anesthetic
- Demonstrate steps in safely loading and unloading an anesthetic syringe
- Identify injection sites for maxillary and mandibular arches
- Discuss the role of nitrous oxide
- Demonstrate the ability to assist with administration of nitrous oxide
D. “DENTAL PROCEDURES & MATERIALS”:
- Describe the properties, composition and manipulation of dental bonding adhesives, bases and cements
- List the types of materials used to directly restore cavity preparationsand where they are used
- Describe the properties, composition, and manipulations of various cavity restoratives
- Describe the steps of a cavity preparation
- Identify armamentarium used in restorative procedures
- Place and remove matrix bands in all quadrants of the mouth
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of cotton roll/dri-angle isolation
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of dental dam isolation
- Identify and manipulate isolation armamentarium
- Place and remove cotton rolls from all areas of the mouth
- Place and remove dental dam from each quadrant of the mouth
- Demonstrate the grasps, positions, and transfer of instruments during a procedure
- Identify oral evacuation armamentarium
- Demonstrate positioning of the dental light and instruments in the oral cavity to insure good visibility
- Demonstrate the use of a saliva ejector
- Demonstrate the use of an HVE tip and retraction devices.
- Using an air/water syringe and HVE tip, rinse, evacuate, and dry each quadrant of the mouth
- Employ the use of mouth props