Preventive Dental Care - Propaedeutic Course
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters
- Autumn
- Course code
- TPBAFERD
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- Norwegian
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Objectives and Content
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, the students are able to:
Knowledge
- explain the term preventive dentistry
- explain the simpler nomenclature used in dental field
- have insight into the current hygiene plan at the Faculty of Medicine (MED)
Skills
- use hand and mechanical instruments/devices used in dental hygienist practice (egcyrets, rotary brushes, etc.) and maintenance of these
- detect and remove plaques and calculus
- instruct in appropriate toothbrush techniques and in interdental cleaning
- use different fluoride prophylactic tools
- classify, brush and polish dental fillings
- identify caries
General competence
- carry out and evaluate their practical work on phantom heads and on fellow students
Semester of Instruction
Access to the Course
Teaching and learning methods
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Lectures/seminars (21 hours), demonstrations and student excercises (48 hours) are compulsory in the course.
To be allowed to sit the written test of the course, the following is demanded:
90% attendance and passed conduction of activities
In this subject, mandatory activities are valid for two semesters.
It is not permitted to have more than two attempts at mandatory teaching in this subject.
Forms of Assessment
Written test
When the assessment method in a subject is a written test, two continuous tests will be arranged shortly for students without valid results. Students who have not achieved valid results after three attempts will be moved to lower classes. The three attempts that belong to each implementation of the subject are counted as one assessment attempt in accordance with UiB's regulations on studies ยง8-1 (1). Due to the short time between the regular and new test, complaints about grading will not be processed until the third attempt has been completed. If the third attempt is conducted as an oral test, the two previous written attempts will be the subject of the complaint process.
Grading Scale
Assessment Semester
Course Evaluation
Examination Support Material
None