Current trends in complete denture teaching in British dental schools

Clark, Robert K.; Radford, David R.; Juszczyk, Andrzej S

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.210

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“…Also, most schools (89.5%) have a preclinical course of tooth mounting and denture design, mainly implemented during the third academic year of their respective courses (73.7%). This preclinical course is widely applied in both U.S. (6) and British Dental Schools (7), but in contrast to our results the majority of British Schools teach CD in the 4th and 5th years of their degree courses (7). Furthermore, our results demonstrate that the use of a manikin head for preliminary impressions in laboratory teaching is more widespread than in U.S. schools (6), although comparable to the situation in British schools (7).…”

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“…The student/staff ratio in clinical teaching found in the present survey ( Table 1: Q5) is similar to those reported for U.S. dental Schools (6,8), most of which have a ratio of 8:1 or higher, with an overall mean of 12:1. These results ( Table 1: Q5) are also fairly similar to those reported for British dental schools, ranging from 6 to 12 students per member of the professional staff (7). Nevertheless, these ratios are less than ideal, since the paired teaching (one student acting as the dentist and the partner as the assistant) reported by most of the schools surveyed ( Table 2: Q13) reduces the time available for individual students to gain hands-on experience.…”

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“…To date only U.S (6) and British Dental Schools (7) have been evaluated in terms of CD curricula, and there is a clear need of monitoring dental curricula within European countries for convergence reasons. The purpose of this study was to investigate the current situation regarding the teaching of CD construction in Spain and Portugal and to determine which educational techniques and materials are currently in use at the various dental schools (before the implantation of the Bologna System).…”

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Curricula for the teaching of complete dentures in Spanish and Portuguese dental schools

Montero¹,

Castillo-Oyagüe²,

Albaladejo³

2013

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Objectives: Given the need to ensure that dentists are sufficiently skilled to offer the best possible care to their patients, this study aims to evaluate the teaching methods and clinical experience achieved by undergraduate dental students in Spain and Portugal as regards complete dentures. Study design: In February 2011, a questionnaire seeking information about the preclinical and clinical teaching of complete dentures was e-mailed to all Spanish and Portuguese dental schools with fully developed undergraduate degree dental programs. Results: A response rate of 82.6% was obtained. The distribution of lectures and hours spent at the laboratory and in clinical activities revealed that teaching complete dentures is eminently a practical issue, this being mostly performed by full-time prosthodontists. All surveyed schools teach the design of the record base, and most of them instruct students in the mounting of teeth in wax. Most schools (94.7%) used a semiadjustable articulator, alginate for primary impressions (73.7%) and elastomeric materials in border-molded custom trays for final impressions (68.4%). In most schools, within the clinical setting students work in pairs, the mean student/ professional staff member ratio being 2.3 ± 0.7. Most schools perform a competence-based assessment (83.3%), although innovative techniques such as problem-based learning are still rarely applied. On average, the students emplaced 1.8 ± 1.2 complete dentures during their clinical training, ranging from 0 to 4, although no clear trend was seen as regards the minimum number of dentures to be made for graduating. Conclusions: Variations in teaching programs and clinical experience concerning complete denture curricula among Spanish and Portuguese dental schools are evident, but all the schools base their teaching mainly on preclinical and clinical practice. However, the low number of dentures made by student per year seems insufficient to ensure clinical skills and cope with social needs. Key words:Dental education, questionnaires, complete dentures, curricula.

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2013

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“…1 In a previous study 2 of current trends in the teaching of complete dentures the authors indicated that there were some programmes which did not provide sufficient complete denture teaching. A previous investigation of removable partial denture teaching, 3 which also included the Irish dental schools, suggested that the mean number of cobaltchromium and acrylic resin removable partial dentures made by students was three and two respectively.…”

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“…1) was developed by two experienced teachers of prosthetic dentistry (RKFC and DRR) and piloted on two additional teachers not included in the study but who had experience of curriculum development in prosthodontics. The questionnaire, which was divided into two sections, factual questions and opinion questions, was sent to the persons identified as the senior teacher of prosthetic dentistry in the 12 longer established dental schools, that had been included in the previous complete denture survey, 2 with a request that they complete it or, if they were not the appropriate person, pass it on to that person. In some instances where a reply was not forthcoming personal contact with another member of the…”

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Predoctoral Prosthodontic Clinical Curriculum for Complete Dentures: Survey in Turkish Dental Schools

Özkurt

Dikbaş

Kazazoğlu

2013

Journal of Dental Education

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The aim of this study was to evaluate predoctoral complete denture curricula in the dental schools of Turkey in terms of materials, techniques, and approaches. A questionnaire with twenty-two multiple-choice questions was prepared and sent by e-mail to the directors of the prosthodontic departments of the seventeen long-established dental schools in Turkey. All schools responded for a response rate of 100 percent. All schools (100 percent) reported using irreversible hydrocolloid impression material for preliminary impression, impression compound for border molding, zinc oxide eugenol for a inal impression, and heat curing technique for complete denture processing. A majority of schools said they used similar materials in complete dentures: cold cured acrylic resin in fabrication of record bases (70.5 percent) and anatomic teeth for posterior region (70.5 percent). The majority of schools did not use eccentric interocclusal records (76 percent) or occlusal equilibration and face-bow preservation (94 percent) and did not treat patients who require tooth-supported overdentures (70.5 percent). None of the schools taught treatment of implant-retained overdentures in their curriculum. Eleven schools (65 percent) used positioning mandible in centric relation techniques performed by both the clinician and the patient. It can be concluded that dental schools in Turkey have different prosthodontic curricula regarding complete dentures, although some topics are the same.

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Current trends in complete denture teaching in British dental schools

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